User:Michelle Harb

It is a very interesting bird since those that have been domesticated are silly well, but those that savages grow up, and they survive, are extremely crafty. Already Cortés when he came to Mexico this turkey had been domesticated. Little later, in 1511, some specimens were sent to the Peninsula. And it continued the domesticated in Europe and the natural life in America. Nowadays the descendants from the domesticated form cannot survive in the nature. So much so when some region treats itself of replobar, it is necessary to use the pigeons of the wild form, which are not so easy to produce in captivity. The Common Turkey is native to North America. His natural distribution understands from the south of Canada up to the north of Mexico. It is not a migratory bird, Nevertheless there are some populations who nest in the mountains that descend to hibernate to fewer height and they all to move in agreement to the abundance of nourishment. Its very normal that in one year move of approximately 30 to 45 kilometres. They live in the regions where there are trees near pieces of open land. Depending the season of the year from 6 to 20 integrated ones can form groups for only males, females, or both kinds, or also they can walk alone. Normally they walk but they can fly and though usually they demolish short distances, have a strong flight. They produce once per year, though it is possible that some females achieve two nestfuls in the same season. The spring of the north hemisphere gives beginning to the epoch of baby, already in the first days of April some mothers are warming her eggs. The man attracts the female with the "singing". As soon as already they are at sight one of other one, the man raises the pens of the body giving the impression that gets conceited. It he stops to fall the wings to touching the soil and open the tail in the shape of range. The unique participation of the father in the process of the baby limits itself to fertilizing the mother. The female selects the nest, incubates the eggs and takes care of the pigeons by her self. The nest is rudimentary, a place dug by the female the land hidden among some bushes. The nestful consists from 8 to 15 eggs. The incubation takes from 26 to 29 days. If during the days of putting, during the incubation or even within a few days of the pigeons have born, the nestful gets lost, it is possible that the female returns to nest. Really she can do it for the next 56 days after being with the man since his organism can be kept fertile for this quantity of days. The pigeons use by their self and are not fed by the mother. The first days only eat insects and have a voracious appetite. Later they start eating herbs, grains and other vegetable substances. Then they need to eat rocks to be able to break and digest the grains and vegetables. To despite that they can travel and eat within a few hours of born, they depend on the protection of the mother to be able to survive. Since they are born they sleep under the wings of the mother. To two weeks already the whole family can be climbed in the not very high, at the time branches they starts sleeping in the branches, even under the wings of the mother until already they has good size. They remain with the mother up to the next season when already they are adult. It estimates that they have a longevity that it overcomes 10 years in the nature, though the mortality, specially of the pigeons, is high. In this kind the males weigh between 8 and 10 kg and the females among 4 and 5 kg, clear these are the wild turkeys, the domesticated ones can be moreover big. Turkey is the national bird of the United States.