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| | Wild Turkey Management |
 | | Turkeys are a very large, small-headed, round-winged, long-tailed, ground-dwelling bird, with an unfeathered bluish head and reddish throat, dark breast, belly and upper back iridescent bronze, green wings, barred primaries, and a dark, fan-shaped tail with a brown or buff band at the tip. |
 | | Turkey foods in order of importance are: grass leaves, crabgrass seeds (late summer and fall), greenleaf material, berries, grasshoppers and beetles, acorns (early spring), panic grass seeds. |
 | | Food Plots - Annual grain food plots for turkeys only supplement natural food supplies and are no substitute for quality management of native wildlife habitat; however, in times of extremely bad weather or during drastic shortages of natural foods, food plots may be useful. |
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