Wild Turkey Season
by Janette Boyd
Title
Wild Turkey Season
Artist
Janette Boyd
Medium
Photograph - Photo/texture/digital
Description
Photo taken near open field near highway in Tulsa, Oklahoma when the spring turkey hunting season opened. This young adult turkey was just casually walking up and down the highway near my home in the Osage Hills of Oklahoma. Using Corel Paintshop, I merged FAA Artist, Jai Johnson's beautiful turquoise and blue textures to the original image and used brushes to blend the colors. .
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Wild Turkey Season
The wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is native to North America and is the heaviest member of the diverse Galliformes. It is the same species as the domestic turkey, which was originally derived from a southern Mexican subspecies of wild turkey (not the related ocellated turkey). Although native to North America, the turkey probably got its name from the domesticated variety being imported to Britain in ships coming from the Levant via Spain. The British at the time therefore associated the wild turkey with the country Turkey and the name prevails. The body feathers are generally blackish and dark brown overall with a coppery sheen that becomes more complex in adult males. Adult males, called toms or gobblers, have a large, featherless, reddish head, red throat, and red wattles on the throat and neck.
Male turkeys have a long, dark, fan-shaped tail and glossy bronze wings. As with many other species of the Galliformes, turkeys exhibit strong sexual dimorphism. The male is substantially larger than the female, and his feathers have areas of red, purple, green, copper, bronze, and gold iridescence. Females, called hens, have feathers that are duller overall, in shades of brown and gray. Parasites can dull coloration of both sexes; in males, coloration may serve as a signal of health. The primary wing feathers have white bars. Turkeys have 5000 to 6000 feathers. Tail feathers are of the same length in adults, different lengths in juveniles. Males typically have a "beard", a tuft of coarse hair (modified feathers) growing from the center of the breast.
Wild turkeys prefer hardwood and mixed conifer-hardwood forests with scattered openings such as pastures, fields, orchards and seasonal marshes. They seemingly can adapt to virtually any dense native plant community as long as coverage and openings are widely available. Open, mature forest with a variety of interspersion of tree species appear to be preferred.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_turkey
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Janette Boyd
Thank you, Jai, for the feature in your beautiful group, "Daily Texture Art". I love all the artwork in this group.
Chrisann Ellis
Janette, Your Work has been Featured On The Home Page of Weekly Fun For All Mediums (for Colorful Work)!!!
Lyric Lucas
Congratulations your creative and unique art work is featured in the "Out Of The Ordinary" group!
John Bailey
Congratulations on being featured in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"