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Wild TurkeyBy: Cyanna

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

• MEET THE WILD TURKEY.….3

• HOME SWEET HOME ….. 4

• DINNER TIME……………..5

• ANIMAL ADAPTATIONS…6

• LABELS…………………….7

• READ MOE/FUN FACTS…8

• GLOSSARY………………...9

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Meet the Wild Turkey

The Ohio wild turkey can stand to 3 to 4 feet tall .It has a slim body and a long neck. Its head has no feathers. The turkey looks brown, but it is bronze with red green copper feathers. Male turkeys have a beard. Females have a bluish head and no beard.

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Home Sweet Home

Found in hardwood forest with scattered opening swamps, mesquite grasslands, ponderosa pine and chaparral. A depressing in dead leaves or vegetation on the ground makes up Their nest.

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Dinnertime

Wild turkeys eat different plants, flowers and berries. They will also eat nuts and insects.

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Adaptation

During the fall and winter they feed more on acorns and fruits of trees. They seek out corn, wheat, oats and other grains in farms. They eat a lot in late winter to prepare for breeding season which is in spring.

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Read More/Fun Facts

The wild turkey originated in the New World and is one of only two native North American birds to be domesticated.

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Labels

www.exploringnature.org

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Glossary

• Chaparral: a shrubland

• Domesticated: the process of taming an animal to live with people

• Originated: the first place for something

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Resources• www.dnr.state.wi.us• www.dnr.state.oh.us• www.allaboutbirds.org• www.exploringnature.org• www.gettyimages.com • www.protrails.com • www.panoramio.com• www.flikr.com• www.animals.nationalgeographic.com• www.upload.wikimedia.org• www.bytheriver.com•

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Meet the Author/Illustrator

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