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The Wild Turkey: sort in danger


The Wild Turkey: sort in danger
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Copyright: Luc Durocher (Luc) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1873 W: 304 N: 4300] (14729)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-01-04
Categories: Birds
Camera: Canon PowerShot S1 IS, canon tc-dc52b 1.6x
Exposure: f/5.0, 1/250 seconds
Details: (Fill) Flash: Yes
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2005-01-16 2:06
Viewed: 1273
Points: 26
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note [French]
The Wild Turkey: sort in danger
Meleargis gallopavo

Without status in Canada
Without status in Quebec

State of the populations: Native sort of North America, the wild Turkey lives especially in the United States and in Mexico. He also nests in Canada: in Ontario and in the extreme the South of Quebec.
Having crossed a very testing time, his populations fairly recovered well. We count now 5,6 million individuals and the sort was able to get back to the major part of its area of origin.
It is in this context that in 1976, the wild Turkey is reappeared in Quebec. The small Quebecois population which became established especially in the South of Montreal, would count between 500 and 1000 individuals today.
Peculiarities and measures of conservation: In the arrival of the first Europeans, the wild Turkey lived in 39 American states and this continent counted about 10 million birds. But, with the colonization, this sort had to suffer important losses of environment besides being a victim of an excessive hunting. In 1929, the turkey had disappeared from Canada as well as from 19 states and its workforce was not more than of 60 000 individuals.
The recent desolation of a lot of agricultural lands certainly allowed the reconstruction of forested circles more convenient to this sort. But, it is as well thanks to the setting up of numerous programs of reintroduction that the wild Turkey was able to get back to a good part of its area.
In spite of the representations of the ornithological environment, the wild Turkey still enjoys no particular status in Quebec and it, while the pressures to register him as bird game makes more and more pressing.

Taken at the Ecomuseum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The BG is snow.
I hope you like him.
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  • Janice Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3315 W: 148 N: 6113] (18648)
  • [2005-01-16 3:01]

Oh Luc, this is an ugly fellow. But a good shot of him, poor thing.

Fantastic head Luc,
very good macro with fantastic details, very good pof, I like it a lot, good job

He looks better on the table. Ugly critter well portrayed here.

Agree with Janice, this was a ugly one Luc.
Bente and Mike want to eat my ducks but I think this is a better dinner.Good sharpness, pose and colours.
Very well done.

Very nice Luc it is good to see one of the iconic birds of the world, I believe in the wild they are very shy for understandable reasons, I would prefer Gerts Duck with the orange stuff, this is a nice portrate the snow isolates it well.

Man oh man, this sure is one ugly mug! I think you succeded in catching every "hair" and pimple here, and to think people ate a bird this ugly! Come to think of it, HOW can anybdy eat birds or birdies - they taste as awful as they look nice. I agree with Robert on the DD's - they should be thinned out a bit. But this one here looks like it would make a nice meal for your red fox!

Composition: ****
Sharpness: ***
Color: **
DOF: ***
POV: ***

Pas mal Luc mais je trouve la photo un peu terne.
TFS.

Very good compositon, detail & POV Luc. The cold grey color-tones help to dramatize this one's great good looks! ;-)) Well done!!

Est-ce la "laideur" de cet oiseau qui effraie le cadre du côté droit et le fait dépasser légèrement? ;-). Quoi qu'il en soit, la photo est "belle" et son profil se découpe magnifiquement sur le fond de neige. Excellente note pleine d'informations très intéressantes.

La neige vout fait un fond idéal pour détailler ce volatile étrange. Je pensais que le dindon de basse-cour était l'oiseau le plus laid, mais, déguisé en sauvage, il fait encore mieux :-). Merci, Luc, de nous faire partager vos clichés sur les espèces rares. Ce sont elles qui valent que l'on s'y intéresse.

Well done, Luc. Excelent details and a very good portrait of the turkey. Excelent note.

Mike

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  • japie Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1814 W: 100 N: 1904] (5187)
  • [2005-01-16 16:31]

Ugly!!! Please apply some paint urgently!!

This image is nice and clear and the sharpness is very good - too good in fact - it shows all his uglyness.

Very good composition as well.

Well done and thanks for posting

joli shot, as tu utilisé le zoom numérique (bruit sur les parties sombres) ou un iso un peu élévé
Amicalement Christophe

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