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Who's Marc?
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Only the Shadow knows (certainly I haven't a clue).
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Lovely pic of the beach, Marc.
I thought turkeys were native to North America? Did someone import them to Australia, or are they native there as well? We have wild turkeys around where I live, and while I agree that they're not "beautiful" birds, I rather like them.
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These Scrub Turkeys (also known as Bush Turkeys or Brush Turkeys) are natives to Australia. I've got pictures around here somewhere, but for now, here's the Wikipedia link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Brush-turkey
Normally, my policy is "Never trust anything that wears a large, yellow scrotum around its neck", but I make exceptions for the turkeys because they are extraordinarily "stupid" and naive, and somehow, to me, adorable with it. Not necessarily pretty ("ugly" even), but, to me, "pretty" is overrated, and "ugly" doesn't preclude attraction.
Note in the wikipedia article the point about "nests" (
"1 to 1.5 metres high and up to 4 metres across"). They can be amazingly destructive in a garden, and are much disliked by some locals. I've seen one scratch (they walk forwards, flicking the stuff backwards with their big claws) all of the newly-spread-by-Council multi-cubic metres of mulch from one side of the road to a "nest" on the other.
They're all over the place here, including in the main street (Hastings Street) behind the beach, usually trying to find their way under the alfresco tables.
Cheers,
Marc