DCHP-3

wild turkey

West
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the little brown crane, Grus canadensis.

See: turkey

Quotations

1930
The Sandhill Crane, improperly called Wild Turkey on the prairies, is to-day seldom seen,though a few years ago its hoarse trumpeting was a familiar sound overhead during the migration period.
1963
[We have] seen the wild turkeys leave the cultivated and . . . drouth­-stricken prairies. . . .