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Though domestic turkeys are considered flightless, wild turkeys can and do fly for short distances. Turkeys are best adapted for walking and foraging; they do not fly as a normal means of travel. When faced with a perceived danger, wild turkeys can fly up to a quarter mile. Turkeys may also make short flights to assist roosting in a tree. [48]
Turkey hosts more than three thousand endemic plant species, has high diversity of other taxa, and is mostly covered by three of the world's thirty-five biodiversity hotspots. [1] Although some environmental pressures have been decoupled from economic growth , the environment still faces many threats, such as coal and diesel fuel emitting ...
No, domestic turkeys (aka the ones that are raised on farms) cannot fly. Because they spend their lives growing up on locations where they have no natural predators and likely without trees to ...
Galliformes / ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ f ɔːr m iː z / is an order of heavy-bodied ground-feeding birds that includes turkeys, chickens, quail, and other landfowl.Gallinaceous birds, as they are called, are important in their ecosystems as seed dispersers and predators, and are often reared by humans for their meat and eggs, or hunted as game birds.
About half of forest in Turkey is directly part of the economy, with most of the rest functioning as watershed and erosion control. [5] 29 million m 3 of standing trees, [note 1] 23 million m 3 industrial wood, and five million steres of firewood were sold in 2023. [1]: 42 As of 2023, wood production is the main source of profit from forests.
The ecoregions of Turkey include the important [2] terrestrial Eastern Anatolian deciduous forests and Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests. There are also small areas of bottomland forest. [3] Turkey includes portions of three biodiversity hotspots: the Mediterranean Basin, the Caucasus, and the Irano-Anatolian. [2]
X" are 10 (as of May 2024) supplemental lists of new taxa that have been found in Turkey (released as PDFs). "Orchids of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, ed 3", 2006, 640 pp, by Pierre Delforge (English, includes the entirety of Turkey). "Die Orchideen der Türkei" (The Orchids of turkey), 1998, 768 pp, by D Kreutz (German).
The turkey vulture forages by smell, an ability that is uncommon in the avian world, often flying low to the ground to pick up the scent of ethyl mercaptan, a gas produced by the beginnings of decay in dead animals. [6] The olfactory lobe of its brain, responsible for processing smells, is particularly large compared to that of other animals. [6]