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Spring Wild Turkey Tom Displaying Photos

By Mia McPherson|April 21st, 2021|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Utah, Wild Turkeys|Tags: adult, courtship behavior, courtship display, desert, dewlap, displaying, male, Meleagris gallopavo, snood, spring, tom, turkey, turkeys, upland terrestrial birds, Wild Turkey|

Yesterday morning I spent a bit of time observing and photographing this Wild Turkey tom strutting and displaying in Box Elder County, Utah.

West Desert Wild Turkey Tom Strutting And Displaying

By Mia McPherson|April 10th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Wild Turkeys|Tags: beard, breeding display, breeding season, canyon, courtship display, displaying, fanned tail, fanning, feathers, gobble, junipers, male, Meleagris gallopavo, mountains, road, snood, snow, spring, spring snow, spurs, strutting, tail, tom, turkey, turkeys, Wild Turkey|

I took hundreds of photos of the tom Wild Turkey fanning his tail, walking on the dirt road, strutting and displaying for the hens I could not see. And for those moments all seemed right in the world.