What do you know about turkeys? Test your turkey knowledge with this fun trivia quiz!

Here turkey, turkey, turkey!

• Turkeys are able to adapt to a wide variety of habitats. However, most turkeys are found in hardwood forests with grassy areas.
• The best time to see a turkey is on a warm clear day or in a light rain.

They what?

• Turkeys have heart attacks. When the Air Force was conducting test runs and breaking the sound barrier, fields of turkeys would drop dead.
• Turkeys can drown if they look up when it is raining.

Eat, sleep, gobble

• Turkeys spend the night in trees. They fly to their roosts around sunset.
• Turkeys fly to the ground at first light and feed until mid-morning. Feeding resumes in mid-afternoon.
• Gobbling starts before sunrise and can continue through most of the morning.

Eyes in the backs of their heads?

• A wild turkey has excellent vision and hearing. Their field of vision is about 270 degrees. This is the main reason they continue to elude some hunters.

And they're fast, too!

• A spooked turkey can run at speeds up to 32 kilometres (20 mph) per hour. They can also burst into flight approaching speeds between 88 kilometres per hour (50-55 mph) in a matter of seconds.

Now how about those stats on turkeys?  Are you ready for Thanksgiving?  I'm not!

Janie Masterson, Realtor, GRI, CLHMS www.janiemasterson.com  janie@janiemasterson.com

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