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Table 2.3 (Continued)
Development and
Species Feet (Tarsus/toes) Weight (g) Integument Beak / Mouth Vocalizations Other
Wild Turkey Buffy yellow at Hatch: 47 Down: fully covered, Chicken‐like but Newly hatched chicks Iris: sepia. Leave
(Meleagris hatch turning cinnamon to tawny heavier, lower pale give a soft “purr” nest soon after
gallopavo) vinaceous pink. Adult: F: 3200, forehead and on back, pinkish, upper sound. Chicks give 3 hatching.
M: 6100 breast and sides lighter. darker pink. types of peeping calls
Refs: 1, 7 Sides of head pinkish buff and a putt call when
(bna.22) to yellow. Chin, upper threatened. Poults give
throat, and breast near whistling (locator) call
white. Dark brown blotches at 7 wk. when
on crown, nape, and upper separated from brood.
body. Wings: primaries
(1–7) project from sheaths
at hatch.
GREBES (Podicipedidae): Anisodactyl toe arrangement and lobate; legs situated far back on body, walking awkward. Semi‐precocial young.
Pied‐billed Grayish black. Hatch: 13.3–16.2 Down: two downy stages. Bill: high, laterally First few weeks, soft Iris black until end
Grebe Asymmetrical lobes. 1st: short, thin, back and compressed, tip has seep‐seep calls of first week, then
(Podilymbus Adult: F: 358, sides black with 4 white slight hook and associated with adult changes to dark
podiceps) M: 474 stripes. Crown has 2 v‐ decurved; pink with bringing food. Also, a brown. Eye‐ring
shaped stripes. Head and black in middle and ee‐ee‐ee‐ee‐ii‐ii‐iah call. rufous. Can swim
Refs: 1, 7 neck with black marks white egg tooth on When distressed a shortly after
hatching. Fed by
single, frequent peep
(bna.410) extending to white chest. upper and lower
Spot on crown and bar on mandible. Gape pink note is given. both parents. Ride
nape cinnamon‐rufous. to reddish. on parents’ backs
when small.
Western Grebe Slaty, near black Within 1 day of Down: dense, velvety, dark Bill: black. White egg Not known to make Iris black, then pale
(Aechmophorus with greenish lobes. hatch: 21.7, 34.4, gray above, white below. tooth on upper tip calls before leaving gray. White eye ring
occcidentalis) 36.0. Crown is bare and straw‐ corresponds with nest. and lores. Rides on
yellow, turns scarlet when white spot on lower. back of parent.
Refs: 1, 7 Adult: F: 1199, begging or when apart
(bna.26a) M: 1429 from parents. Clark’s down:
light gray.

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