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Why did the turkey hail a cab?

isn't that a hen?

By Brett | Sun, 05/11/2008 - 10:50am

I caught the turkey with my camera just as he was getting the evil eye by passing cabbie Jim Moynihan.

Isn't that a hen, not a tom?

I think it's a young tom

By Not a turkey expert (not verified) | Sun, 05/11/2008 - 12:22pm

Although we can't see the turkey's "beard" (long hair-like strand that grows from the front of the breast on male turkeys), I think it's a tom turkey because it has a more pronounced "snood" on its forehead. Scroll down on this (bowhunting) site to see a head-to-head comparison of tom vs. hen.

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