| The Rio Grande wild turkey on one occasion came | | | | rivers or mesquite, pine and scrub oak forests. It |
| very close to extinction, but credit to several Federal | | | | might be found up to 6,000 feet increase and usually |
| programs with the intention that preserved the | | | | favors kingdom that is more receptive than the |
| turkey, it is at present thriving and is tolerable to be | | | | forested environment favored by its eastern cousins. |
| hunted again. The Rio Grande turkey has specific | | | | This type of wild turkey is considered gregarious and, |
| preferences that present it an ideal bird on behalf of | | | | nomadic in various areas, having discrete summer and |
| hunting if you live in one its habitats. It is comparable | | | | winter ranges. They might form sizeable flocks of |
| in wide-ranging manifestation to the other subspecies | | | | several hundred birds throughout the winter interval. |
| of the wild turkey and alike in body size to the | | | | It has been recognized to travel distances of 10 or |
| Florida Turkey, roughly four feet tall, but with | | | | more miles from traditional winter roost sites to its |
| disproportionately long legs. | | | | nesting areas. |
| Rio Grande Turkeys were moreover introduced to | | | | As the term might indicate, the Rio Grande wild |
| Hawaii in the overdue 1950s. This sub-species is | | | | turkey does call west Texas in the vicinity the Rio |
| native to the central plain states. They were primarily | | | | Grande native soil, but its territory is much bigger |
| described in 1879, and contain relatively long legs. | | | | than that. George B. Sennett firstly identified the bird |
| Their body feathers often hold a green-coppery | | | | in 1879. Sennett described the turkey as being an |
| luster to them. The tips of the tail and decrease back | | | | "intermediary" involving the Eastern wild turkey and |
| feathers are a buff-very light tan color. Its habitats | | | | wild turkey species more commonly found in western |
| are brush areas subsequently to streams, rivers or | | | | parts of the US. This go-between tag stuck, ration |
| mesquite, pine and bushes oak forests. Rio Grande | | | | to earn the turkey its scientific name, Meleagris |
| Turkeys are gregarious. | | | | Gallapavo Intermedia. |
| The Rio inhabits brush areas close to streams and | | | | |