Very large game bird. Displaying males look almost spherical, with naked, red-and-blue head and fanned tail.
Very large game bird with long neck and legs. Females are dark brown overall with even darker barring.
Very large game bird with small, unfeathered head covered with blue and red wattles. Displaying males give a throaty, jumbled call known as a "gobble."
Often roosts in trees. These heavy birds fly short distances to take cover. Takes flight with a flurry of loud, labored wingbeats.
Male has a relatively small, bare head with blue skin and red wattles.
Very large game bird. Females have bare skin on the head and are dark brown overall, with a coppery sheen to the rump and tail. When open, the wings show white barring.
Juveniles can leave the nest upon hatching, but mothers care for their young into the first fall.
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Wild Turkeys are very large, plump birds with long legs, wide, rounded tails, and a small head on a long, slim neck.
One of our largest and heaviest birds; smaller than a Trumpeter Swan; about twice the size (and four times as heavy) as a Ring-necked Pheasant.
goose-sized or largerWild Turkeys in the Rocky Mountains tend to have whitish tips to the rump and tail feathers, whereas other populations have rusty or chestnut tail tips.
Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies(Order: Galliformes, Family: Phasianidae)
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