Feathers?

[ickaimp]

Anyone know what kind of bird these came off of? That's a quarter up there for some scale.

Found in a back alley with some smaller ones that looked like they were all from the same bird. Hawk?

[edit: It's Turkey Feathers! ...what's a turkey doing wandering around Tucson? o.O ]

Comments

[basal-surge.livejournal.com]

Bottom two, definitely turkey. I've plucked enough to identify them fairly readily. Passable for quill pens if you have nothing else.

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

The top one looks like a mockingbird feather; the bottom two are turkey (basal_surge is definitely right there; remember the ones I bought for a craft project a while back?)

[ickaimp.livejournal.com]

..... What is a turkey doing, running around Tucson?!

[snotblossom.livejournal.com]

Hiding? Praying desperately to survive the next week?

[green-turquoise.livejournal.com]

I don't know what it would be doing in Tucson, but I've seen wild turkeys in very strange places before. I saw five turkeys in an alley in downtown Roswell once.

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

Probably for the same reason my little sister's back porch has turkey feathers stuck in odd places unless she sweeps: somebody in the family hunts. You can find 'em in 49 of the 50 states (I checked out of curiosity), pretty much anywhere where there's grasslands... looks like people hunt 'em in the Chiracuhuas. So somebody went hunting for Thanksgiving and then cleaned 'em out back and (I hope) knows how to cook wild turkey; according to my sister, the meat is TOUGH as nails and does best ground up.

[ickaimp.livejournal.com]

The thing that confused me is that it looked like a hawk or something had taken a strike and hit something, if not a kill. No body, but a line of feathers, almost big to little.

Yay back alleys?

[soc_puppet]

Turkey, definitely. All three feathers, even; I've got friends who raised natural-color turkeys in the past, and their wings are barred brown-and-white.

[saitaina]

Bottom Two: Back tail of a turkey
Top: Side wing of a Turkey

(I live in turkey country where we have both wild and raised...really tempting to run half of them over instead of waiting for them to cross the street when they keep back tracking).

[lil-1337.livejournal.com]

There are lots of turkeys running around Tucson. Most of them don't have feathers either.