Ecosystem Interactions

Pastures and Woods in South Fork

The turkey will be found hiding in the woods for cover during the day and night. In the woods they have cover and eat on berries, acorns, worms, buds, vines, salamanders and small snakes. The turkey will also roost in the trees and sleep at night.

 

The turkey enjoys the pasture too. They enjoy the sun and eat whatever they can find in the grass. They like grasses, clover, insects, tics, buds, and grasshoppers. They enter the fields in the morning after the sun rises and in the late afternoon before they roost. 

 

This photo was taken about 4:30 on April 21, 2014 on a dirt road in South Fork, Missouri. I was driving the roads looking for turkeys in a field. The conditions were cloudy and it was getting ready to rain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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