Turkish Stars & SOLOTURK
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Dawn on 29/09/19 in Turunc, Turkey
Some days its just worth getting up very early and seeing what opportunities Nature brings your way.
I always thought dawn and the sunrise here would be stunning and it really was.
Wild turkeys are powerful fliers, especially for short distances. Speeds of up to 55 mph have been observed. To conserve energy, wild turkeys primarily walk. They spend most of their time on the ground, where they search for acorns, seeds, fruits, insects, leaves, and small vertebrates. They can easily cover several hundred acres in a day.
Wild turkeys are social animals and typically flock together in groups numbering just a few birds to as many as 20 or more. They are extremely wary and will run away or fly to a tree to escape danger. For safety from ground predators, wild turkeys roost at night in trees within thicker forest stands.
Florida is home to two subspecies of wild turkey — the eastern wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris) and the Osceola or Florida wild turkey. The Florida wild turkey is best distinguished from the eastern subspecies, which it closely resembles, by the white barring on its wing feathers. On Florida wild turkeys, the white bars on the primary wing feathers are narrower than the black bars and are irregular or broken, which tends to give the wing an overall darker appearance compared to eastern wild turkeys.
The Florida wild turkey is found only in peninsular Florida. North of the peninsula and across the Florida panhandle, it interbreeds with the eastern subspecies.
The wild turkey is a woodlands bird and prefers open forests and forest edges and openings. They are considered a generalist species meaning they do not require specialized food or a particular vegetation community to survive. Consequently, they occur throughout Florida in any suitable habitat.
I found these two in a large group of about 20 just off of Peavine Road In Osceola County, Florida.
One of a kind with two different eye colors cat breed originated from Turkey !. she called "Turkish Van"
"Van" is a name of a small city where located eastern part of the Turkey which is where this breed is originated. very special breed of it`s kind and under the government protection
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Turkish Taksi driver with his '58 Chevrolet Impala, Kuşadası, 1979, scanned from Ektachrome slide.
Had to go up to the hospital today for tests and the area turkeys were standing their ground. So I had to drive around on the grass. Then they came up to my car and started to peck at my hub cap. Getting to be a nuisance.
Turkey
We went to Turkey in April of 2016. I was incredibly surprised with what we saw. We visited Alanya, Antalaya, Istanbul, the Kursunlu Falls, Laodicea as well as the Green Canyon and much more. We were very impressed with the welcome, the friendliness and just the sheer uniqueness of the country.
I would have liked to have stayed much longer but you can’t have everything in life.
Turkey Vultures seem to have a "world weary" expression, as if they have seen it all, and there's nothing that can surprise them.
They truly are nature's clean-up crew, and when there is a group circling overhead, it's a good sign there's been a kill.
I read some time ago that in Africa, poachers kill vultures, as they would provide clues to the game wardens that there had been an illegal kill, and that's how they were finding the poachers. The kill of the vultures obviously created a lot of problems, as they are such an important part of the ecosystem.
Photo taken May 18, 2023
There have been a ridiculous number of wild turkeys around here lately, the toms all strutting their stuff for the hens, the hens completely ignoring them.
Taken at Tucklesholme Nature Centre, Staffordshire.
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Turkey Vulture showing us his best side .. :)
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