this wild turkey is abundant in the bushy scrub country of the southern Great Plains, West Texas and north Mexico
at Houston's zoo the turkeys are displayed adjacent to the Bald Eagle, which is appropriate as Ben Franklin wanted the turkey as our National Bird, whose virtues he admired
in perhaps a prescient move, the Congress went for the more comely eagle
this was taken through a wire mesh enclosure, another portion of which is responsible for the somewhat restless bokeh in the background
full resolution crops from this to illustrate the DR available from an unprocessed, other than for conversion in NX2, file can be seen in my gallery dedicated to the D3X