Author Topic: Cool vid of the Ocellated turkey in strut and "gobbling"...  (Read 673 times)

wiltznucs

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Pretty neat video shot in Belize of a Ocellated gobbler workin' the ladies.  The gobble is certainly unlike the American turkeys and watch his wings as he struts...

Sooner or later I'm gonna have to chase one of these...


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Re: Cool vid of the Ocellated turkey in strut and "gobbling"...
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2010, 09:55:22 AM »
That was as neat a video as I've seen! Did not know they were that pretty! He is definitely right wing though!

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Re: Cool vid of the Ocellated turkey in strut and "gobbling"...
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2010, 09:56:44 AM »
He was struttin his stuff *dance*

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Re: Cool vid of the Ocellated turkey in strut and "gobbling"...
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2010, 10:02:27 AM »

... now that is very, very cool - thanks for postin' that up !!! ... 8) 8) 8) 8)
... no kiddin' 'bout wantin' to chase one of those fine gobblers down ...  *cheers*

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Re: Cool vid of the Ocellated turkey in strut and "gobbling"...
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2010, 10:26:38 AM »
He was struttin his stuff *dance*

No doubt, he's got his mojo workin'! *bannana* *bannana*
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Re: Cool vid of the Ocellated turkey in strut and "gobbling"...
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2010, 11:20:29 AM »

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Re: Cool vid of the Ocellated turkey in strut and "gobbling"...
« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2010, 11:32:34 AM »
 Might be tough to tune a call to gobble like that!  ROTFLMBO Cool video!

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Re: Cool vid of the Ocellated turkey in strut and "gobbling"...
« Reply #7 on: July 11, 2010, 12:00:58 PM »
He is definitely right wing though!

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Re: Cool vid of the Ocellated turkey in strut and "gobbling"...
« Reply #8 on: July 11, 2010, 01:06:33 PM »
Very cool video.

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Re: Cool vid of the Ocellated turkey in strut and "gobbling"...
« Reply #9 on: July 11, 2010, 02:29:56 PM »
I thought those things were so elusive you had to go deep into the jungle to even see one. These folks seem to have a pretty good population.

 *cool*video

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Re: Cool vid of the Ocellated turkey in strut and "gobbling"...
« Reply #10 on: July 11, 2010, 03:30:49 PM »
I thought those things were so elusive you had to go deep into the jungle to even see one. These folks seem to have a pretty good population.

 *cool*video

I Googled the place and its some sort of nature preserve. 

Go figure, the largest Osceola gobbler I've ever seen lives in an office park only 20 minutes North of Tampa and within eyesight of I-75.  Theres dozens of them living there and they are most certainly wild.  Sometimes you see turkeys in the darndest places...

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Re: Cool vid of the Ocellated turkey in strut and "gobbling"...
« Reply #11 on: July 12, 2010, 09:52:37 AM »
great video---and boy do those birds have some serious spurs !!!

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Re: Cool vid of the Ocellated turkey in strut and "gobbling"...
« Reply #12 on: July 12, 2010, 09:56:27 AM »
beautiful birds, but i have no interest in hunting them.  gonna be hard to find strut marks on that concrete.

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Re: Cool vid of the Ocellated turkey in strut and "gobbling"...
« Reply #13 on: July 12, 2010, 12:07:05 PM »
beautiful birds, but i have no interest in hunting them.  gonna be hard to find strut marks on that concrete.

If you had asked me a few years ago, I'd agree with you.  Until recently most have been shot off the roost, and I have no interest in that.  

I now look at the Ocellated differently, behavior wise they are very similar to its American counterparts but vocalizations are entirely different.  I'm reading over Lovett Williams's new book on the Ocellated when I find downtime.  With calling(albeit mostly electronic) changing the way you hunt them I look at it as a different challenge.  Now that calling them is involved, I'd definitely like to hunt them...
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