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Started by FireDoc, May 30, 2015, 02:56:19 PM

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QuoteNice pictures and story.  One question,...are there Merriams turkeys in Michigan?  That one bird sure isn't an Eastern....

Southern Michigan bird. I thought the same thing as soon as we got up to him. His wife's bird had the same coloration.

Kind of cool.
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Quote from: FireDoc on May 31, 2015, 08:13:14 PM
QuoteNice pictures and story.  One question,...are there Merriams turkeys in Michigan?  That one bird sure isn't an Eastern....

Southern Michigan bird. I thought the same thing as soon as we got up to him. His wife's bird had the same coloration.

Kind of cool.

I wonder where that coloration is coming from?  Was there a historical release of Merriams (or perhaps some Rio's) somewhere in that vicinity?  Those birds are definitely not Easterns.  It would be very interesting to know how that coloration got there.