American WILD turkeys can fly.
I was driving down a steep grade a wooded section of the Blue Ridge Parkway when a feathered bowling ball (wild turkey) flew out of the trees on the upslope side, across the road in front of me, and into the thin air above the tree tops on the downslope side of the parkway. Being from the upper mid-west I had never seen a wild turkey before that.
The Mexican birds that we eat at Thanksgiving can’t fly. They are engineered to stand around and eat.
Was he dropping the fake Mexican turkeys or genuine American Wild turkeys?
They can’t fly very far. From a tree to the ground, from the ground to a tree. That’s about it. You’re fortunate to have been on the downslope otherwise that feathered bowling ball would have been through your windshield. They’re all over the place now, here in NC. Not even particularly afraid of people, out and about in yards and such like overgrown guinea hens or something.