Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.
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Dear Teacher, Decorator, Baker, Designer, and anyone else planning to color a turkey:
A turkey cock is not a peacock!
A wild turkey does not have rainbow tail feathers. No yellow, red, orange, green, purple.
A wild turkey is a mix of black, gray, brown, dark tan, white, and russet. The head is white or light grey with a little light blue around the eyes and throat, and the male will have a bright red wattle. In sunlight, the feathers have some iridescence, so you might see a shimmering surface wash of gold, copper, golden green or blue. The tail is some shade of brown, with stripes of black and white at the end of the feathers.
The tail is NOT a dime store fake native american headdress, so cut that out!
Ok, I can understand if you have small children coloring a turkey. A palette restricted to browns is pretty boring. Let them get creative. Heck, they think pink horses are perfection, and that's fine. But when an adult is coloring a turkey for adults, a multi-colored tail simply displays ignorance, and is insulting to your audience, not to mention to the bird.
A wild turkey is amazingly beautiful on its own. It doesn't need enhancement.
She: "You do realize all that fluff doesn't really make you bigger, right?"
[Photo borrowed from the website for the Wild Birds Unlimited nature shop in East Lansing, Michigan, http://lansingwbu.blogspot.com/2012/11/bird-of-week-wild-turkey.html.]
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