r/animalid • u/diggidydog3 • 20h ago

Is this a Turkey? 🐦 🦢 BIRDS / WATERFOWL ID 🐦 🦢

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Been meaning to ask back when I was in Boston. Didn’t look like a typical turkey at first glance not sure what it is

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u/Deerwhacker 20h ago

Yes, a hen. Weird that she's by herself in such open terrain.

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u/midnight_fisherman 19h ago

Weirder that this is the second turkey acting strange in Boston that was posted today.

Edit to link

https://www.reddit.com/r/birds/s/LNAHcxr7Mo

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u/Deerwhacker 19h ago

That's odd. I hope somebody didn't poison them intentionally or accidentally. Definitely not normal for a healthy turkey.

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u/diggidydog3 16h ago

So wild turkeys just lounging arent common? This was a few weeks ago late December when I was in Boston. She was completely alone and kind of just standing posting in one spot, didn’t move much

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u/Deerwhacker 4h ago

Not lounging alone like that out of their environment. I guess it could be partially domesticated and used to people, might be just lost, but they don't usually act like that. Turkeys are flock animals and don't like to be alone, except for a couple months in Spring when the hens are sitting on nests and raising poults.

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u/katieskittenz 7h ago

Bird flu? :/

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u/diggidydog3 16h ago

Oh wow never knew female turkeys were referred to as hens!

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u/Deerwhacker 4h ago

Yep, Hens and Toms.

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u/Royweeezy 14h ago

Feast around and find out.