Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!rex!uflorida!mailer.cc.fsu.edu!evax2.eng.fsu.edu!svihla From: svihla@evax2.eng.fsu.edu Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: OUTDOOR: Wild turkeys? Message-ID: <1991Feb12.233152.16610@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> Date: 13 Feb 91 04:31:52 GMT References: <144605@pyramid.pyramid.com> Reply-To: svihla@evax2.eng.fsu.edu Distribution: na Lines: 35 News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4 In article <144605@pyramid.pyramid.com>, sandra@pyrtech.pyramid.com (Sandra Macika) writes... >In article pratt@paul.rutgers.edu (Lorien Y. Pratt) writes: >>Nope; I'm sure it's been said before, but they were turkey vultures. >>Congratulations on a close sighting! TV's have a pattern kind of like this >>underneath: >> >> >> ^ <== Red featherless head >> /--------------\ >> /-------/ /-----\ \----------\ >> / /-----------/ \------------- \<==black part >> /- White part \--\ >> /--------------| |----------------\ >> | | >> / \ >> / \ >> \_______/ >> >>L. Y. Pratt Computer Science Department > >Thanks for the Great artwork! You did a wonderful job. But I would have called >this part Grey; even Dark Grey. Does it ever actually look white? > >Thanks, >Sandra Thanks for the replies thus far to my original post. The light areas on the birds bodies *were* white - the sun was almost down and wasn't directly on them, so I'm pretty sure of the color. I conferred again with my brother - he estimated that their wing span was maybe five or six feet and we both tend to think that the neck as well as the head was red. The birds flew with extended necks, I think, and their wing beats were fairly rapid. I checked and found out that both turkeys and turkey vultures are relatively plentiful in the area near where we were. Does any of this information confirm or refute my guess that the UFO's were, in fact, turkeys?