Turkeys do fly small distances and to roost
I’m not sure the big deal but I’ve never seen them dropped from altitude
They might not recover in flight
Has anyone here seen it
I have a huge chinkapin oak about 100 feet high and 200 foot span in my yard
Occasionally they fly up to roost high
As do Owls
Not at same time
And when the owls migrate a bit it’s huge crows almost like that scene in Game of Thrones
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Prairie turkeys fly any?
Turkeys can fly but it is not a pretty sight. Kind like the way Forest Gump ran when he had leg braces on.
........ nope, will flush and evade the predator be they critter or hunter but never saw them fly to any height or distance ...... pretty much the aviation skills of a leghorn chicken.
During the Spanish Civil War the Nationalists used turkeys as makeshift parachutes to drop supplies to an encircled garrison (IIRC, the Alcazar in Toledo). It slowed the drop sufficiently to prevent the destruction of the supplies on impact (though I believe the birds died). Worked better than traditional parachutes because there was much less drift, and the garrison was in a small area.