What animal is this?

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Buckie06
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What animal is this?

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Does anyone know what animal would leave these tracks? This was along the Colorado Trail a few miles from the Shavano Trailhead. Some sort of bird??
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Re: What animal is this?

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turkey probably
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Re: What animal is this?

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Ah yes. The elusive GU bird. Identifiable by the distinctive GU droppings. A rare sighting.
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Re: What animal is this?

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roadrunner?
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Re: What animal is this?

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cottonmountaineering wrote: ↑Mon May 17, 2021 2:42 pm turkey probably
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Re: What animal is this?

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Those are the prints of a frumious bandersnatch.
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Re: What animal is this?

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That is Henry, great turkey of the Southern Sawatch.
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Re: What animal is this?

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Without a doubt it is a turkey track. Have seen turkeys in that area around Shavano before and I love hunting them. Hard to tell if it is a gobbler or hen track but looks big enough to be a gobbler. Grouse will leave very similar tracks just about 1/3 the size of what is in that photo.
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Re: What animal is this?

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We have turkeys everywhere in our neighborhood in Larkspur. Don’t know how much they weigh but I’m always surprised at how they make a deep track where I’m barely making a track.
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Re: What animal is this?

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A turkey!

Here are prints one made by us-
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rperth wrote: ↑Mon May 17, 2021 2:47 pm Ah yes. The elusive GU bird. Identifiable by the distinctive GU droppings. A rare sighting.
Not rare enough.

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Whenever I see crow prints in snow I always wonder why there’s a chicken on the loose
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