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| Author: | Neill [ Mon Apr 28, 2014 6:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Jake or Gobbler? |
The bird in hawglips first photo.....what is it? The wing feathers say adult...it appears to have just the start of a beard....and the dewlap says gobbler.....so is it an adult gobbler with a tiny beard? |
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| Author: | hawglips [ Tue Apr 29, 2014 9:05 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Jake or Gobbler? |
Neill wrote: The bird in hawglips first photo.....what is it? The wing feathers say adult...it appears to have just the start of a beard....and the dewlap says gobbler.....so is it an adult gobbler with a tiny beard? It's an adult hen. You can always tell sex by the breast feather tip color. Males have black tipped breast feathers, females have buff tipped feathers. |
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