Did you confirm that the female was dead?
Everything else about it sounds like mating/courtship ritual and cloacal kiss. It describes exactly what I see every year in my field. Except for the dead part. Yikes.
Boots.
Franklin, ME
On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 5:37 PM Sean Hatch <seanarih@gmail.com> wrote:
So I had an odd experience regarding turkey's yesterday. I came outside my front door to see a Tom up my driveway. Beneath him, a dead female. He continuously stood atop her grinding his claws into her and then would get off and display and trot around her. He did this for 2+ hrs. He killed the female I'm assuming.I have feeders and occasionally get turkey's. There were 4-7 in my yard before this happened. All alive. Next time I went outside I saw what I saw. I thought it odd. Would love to hear if anyone else has witnessed anything like this. Or can explain this behaviour to me. I've never seen anything like it. Offline is fine.
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