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Post by snakeeye on Feb 9, 2007 10:35:39 GMT -5
I was scouting turkeys in southern IN earlier this week, and I stumbled upon this: It's not an albino (piebald) turkey. Anyone know what this is? Is it fair game?
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Post by hunter7x on Feb 9, 2007 10:47:01 GMT -5
is it a snow goose ? I blew it up, but its too grainey to tell for sure ?
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Post by firelt72 on Feb 9, 2007 11:50:26 GMT -5
I think it is a turkey. If you zoom in some and look at the turkey directly right, approx the same depth, they have very similar builds. It could be a "stage" this turkey is going through? Thats my thought.
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Post by larryhagmansliver on Feb 9, 2007 12:03:51 GMT -5
If it has a beard, shoot it in April. That's my advice.
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Post by snakeeye on Feb 9, 2007 12:19:07 GMT -5
It's got a "thing" on top of its head, so I was thinking it was some sort of ornamental bird.
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Post by firelt72 on Feb 9, 2007 15:33:08 GMT -5
The black turkey has that thing to if you zoom in on it some.
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Post by bsutravis on Feb 9, 2007 16:06:29 GMT -5
Bigfoot???
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Post by shootsa410 on Feb 9, 2007 16:46:44 GMT -5
Dang Snake, it would be a heck of allot easier to identify if you would have killed it and taken a close up picture.
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Post by ridgerunner on Feb 10, 2007 9:20:55 GMT -5
LOL....You guys are a piece of work..How long you been hunting?..LOl..
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Post by Woody Williams on Feb 10, 2007 9:29:29 GMT -5
It's got a "thing" on top of its head, so I was thinking it was some sort of ornamental bird. I think it is a white turkey.. That "thing" on top of it's head is a piece of snow on a tree in the background. .
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Post by hoosiertaxidermist on Feb 12, 2007 18:37:44 GMT -5
can't tell much from the pic because it is not clear enough but the flock appears to be a hen family flock. Doesn't seem to be any longbeards in the picture. As long as it has a beard it is fair game.
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Post by danf on Feb 12, 2007 19:44:24 GMT -5
Do a search for "Albino turkey?" in this forum. I questioned the same thing last year, and that's the title of the thread I started...
I saw a turkey in the flock I hunted last spring that had a LOT more white in it than a normal turkey has. It could be what you saw was similar to what I saw, and there's theories/information in that thread.
HTH.
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Post by kevin1 on Feb 13, 2007 11:35:27 GMT -5
It's hard to tell, but it may be a grey phase turkey, white on black evenly distributed. There's one like that living in the woods next to mine.
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Post by ff1126 on Feb 14, 2007 15:10:23 GMT -5
I'm not sure what it is? Last year, behind the Fire Station that I work at, we had a flock of turkeys coming up that had a peacock with them. It acted like a turkey. I call the Indiana turkey biologist an told him about it. His only concern was the disease that the peacock my be carrying. By spring the peacock was gone. Don't know if it got killed or went home.
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Post by woodmaster on Feb 14, 2007 21:54:07 GMT -5
Hard to tell by the pic but it might be a turkey like this...
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Post by snakeeye on Feb 15, 2007 17:22:42 GMT -5
A very reliable source in the area told me it's an ornamental that got mixed up with a bunch of hen turkeys.
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Post by mbogo on Mar 2, 2007 18:03:39 GMT -5
The picture doesn't show it very well, but that bird was NOT a turkey. I know because I was there and saw it also. I'm pretty sure it was some type of peacock.
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Post by turk2di on Mar 5, 2007 18:16:11 GMT -5
Hard to tell by the pic but it might be a turkey like this... I'd say ur dead on my friend! Nice birds BTW!
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