Rio??

[duckriver]

Check this out. My taxidermist said he killed it here. Beard and spurs looked messed up. But the coloring looks like a Rio to me.

 

[woodsman87]

I killed one bird many years ago that was colored up like a Rio Grande.

It also had huge, deep pink legs, with big pure black spurs. Huge head, and weighed 24lbs. 24 lbs is an absolute monster from the area that I shot it in.

I do not think it was a Rio Grande. Probably a wild turkey with somehow some Rio blood in it and possible domestic blood in it.

 

[Southern Sportsman]

The Easterns in parts of Missouri look like that, but I've never seen a TN eastern with buff tipped secondarys. Pretty cool.

 

[muddyboots]

I hunted one several years back that had buff tips like that. He was super cool. I never got him.

 

[duckriver]

So y'all think it could be one over here? Killed in southern Hickman

 

[Southern Sportsman]

I don't they they're "Rios," just an eastern with buff tipped tail feathers. True rios are usually quite a bit more colored up than that one. Cool bird for sure though.