TURKEYS
Bird     -     Vertebrate     -    Herbivore   -   Omnivore (wild Turkeys)
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RIO GRANDE TURKEYS
Turkeys …
  • Like to eat grass, clover
  • Wild turkeys are ominous, eating nuts, snakes, insects and berries
  • A farmed turkey will eat soybeans and corn.
  • Head changes colour hen it is excited
  • A male turkey will blush when he meets a female turkey
  • Can drown if they look up while it is raining
  • Can fly - but not very fast or very high
  • Can see in colour
  • Skins are used to make cowboy boots and belts
  • Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national emblem of the United States - the turkey (not the national emblem The Bald Eagle, gets the 'honour' of being the dish of the national holiday - Thanksgiving.
 

Male  ........................................  Tom.  Gobbler.  Slag.
                                                Jake (immature)
Female   ..................................   Hen
Young   ....................................   Poult

SIMILE

  1. As poor as Job's turkey

COLLECTIVE NOUNS

  1. A cream of turkeys
  2. A dole of turkeys
  3. A dule of turkeys
  4. A flock of turkeys
  5. A gang of turkeys
  6. A posse of turkeys
  7. A raffle of turkeys
  8. A raft of turkeys
  9. A rafter of turkeys
IDIOMS, METAPHORS AND EXPRESSIONS
  1. Cold turkey
  2. Freckled as a turkey egg
  3. Stop cold turkey
  4. To talk turkey