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Turkey dust bathing

To: Laurie Knight <>,
Subject: Turkey dust bathing
From: Anthea Fleming <>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 20:57:44 +1100
Hi Laurie,
I have seen a domestic Turkey hen dust bathing - don't recall if she dug a hole or not. Bush turkey - do you mean the Brush Turkey, the megapode with yellow or purple wattle round its neck, or what my grandfather called a Bush Turkey or Plains Turkey, i.e. Bustard?
I have no idea if either dust-bathes.  If i remember I might look up HANZAB.
As a member of the WA Geological Survey, 1910 to 1935, Grandpa ate a lot of Bustards. They were a very welcome change from a diet of tinned bully beef.

Anthea fleming


n 25/02/2019 8:09 PM, Laurie Knight wrote:
G’day

I’ve been coming across some odd holes in the bush tracks in my neighbourhood.  
They are about 30 cm across and 15 cm deep [not your average bandicoot or pig 
excavation].

I came across a female looking bush turkey sitting in a fresh hole, dug about 
100 metres from the nearest active mound.  It looked rather dusty, and I 
suspect it was dusting.  Is this a common turkey behaviour?

Regards, Laurie.
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