🐔Wild Turkey
The wild turkey is an upland game bird native to North America, one of two extant species of turkey and the heaviest member of the order Galliformes. It is the ancestor to the domestic turkey, which was originally derived from a southern Mexican subspecies of wild turkey.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.
- Body mass
- 5.79 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 13 years
Everything we know about the Wild Turkey
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass5.79 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
Figures vary
- 6.05 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Standing height1.07 mnot statedDetails ↓Hide ↑
Indiana DNR: "Stand 3.5 feet tall and weigh 15-20 pounds" (3.5 ft = 1.07 m). The 15-20 lb weight in the same sentence matches toms, so the height may describe males, but the page does not say. Standing height varies with posture.
Source: Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Wild Turkey species page, https://www.in.gov/dnr/fish-and-wildlife/wildlife-resources/animals/wild-turkey/ · see citation
Tail length0.35 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.45 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.05 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.15 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan13 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Gestation28 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Litter sizeabout 11AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Trophic levelHerbivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatForestAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleTerrestrialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l5.8 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Wild Turkey yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderGalliformes
- ›familyPhasianidae
- ›genusMeleagris
- ›speciesMeleagris gallopavo
- classBirds · Aves
- orderGamebirds · Galliformes
- subfamilyMeleagridinae
- genusMeleagris
All 13 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- superorderGalloanserae
- orderGamebirds · Galliformes
- subfamilyMeleagridinae
- genusMeleagris
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