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ML23291
Wild Turkey (Domestic type) Meleagris gallopavo (Domestic type)
Contributor
Robert C. Stein Media from this contributor
William W. H. Gunn Media from this contributor
Date
12:00 PM
Location
Brook Green Gardens
North Carolina, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Behaviors
- Courtship, display, or copulation
- Sounds
- Call
- Playback
- Not specified
- Captive
- Captive
Media notes
NOTES: Range status: CAPTIVITY; Weather: WIND; BIRDS CAPTIVE IN LARGE ENCLOSED DECIDUOUS WOODS. SEVERAL MALES AND FEMALES. THE GOBBLES WERE GIVEN WITH TAIL ERECT, WINGS, DROOPING AND BREAST SPREAD. WHEN NOT VOCALIZING THE MALES CONTINUED POSTURING AND FOLLOWING THE FEMALES WHICH WERE FEEDI MALE(S); FEMALE(S)NG. WE ALSO TRIED UNSUCCESSFULLY TO RECORD A LOW-PITCHED BOOMING SOUND WHICH SEEMED TO BE MADE BY AIR PASSING THROUGH THE TAIL OR WING FEATHERS. THIS SOUND ONLY OCCURRED WHEN THE MALE IN FULL POSTURE RUSHED TOWARD THE FEMALE. THESE SOUNDS WERE INTERSPERS. Other Behaviors: Court.
Additional species
Technical information
- Recorder
- NAGRA III-B
- Microphone
- AKG 200
- Accessories
Archival information
- Digitized
- 16 May 2002 - Martha Fischer