Windows 7 Annoyances
Tips, Secrets, and Solutions
First Edition Mai 2010
ISBN 978-0-596-15762-3
719 Seiten
EUR32.00
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The animal on the cover of Windows 7 Annoyances
is the Central American turkey (Meleagris
ocellata), known today as an ocellated turkey. The spots on its
tail feathers, similar to those of a peacock, give the bird its name (from
the Latin oculus for eye). The range of the ocellated
turkey is limited; about 50,000 square miles in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula,
Guatemala, and Belize.
The coloring of the ocellated turkey is extremely vivid. The bird has
a blue head with prominent orange or red warts. The body plumage is an
iridescent mixture of bronze and green, with copper and white barring on the
wings. Their tail feathers are bluish-gray, with blue copper-tipped
eyespots. The legs are bright red. This species is smaller than North
American turkeys-males weigh 10-12 pounds and females 6-7 pounds.
The ocellated turkey has a wide diet of grasses, leaves, seeds,
berries, nuts, and insects. They typically roost in trees at night, but
spend the rest of their time on the ground. The bird requires a mixture of
forest and grassy clearings for its habitat. The clearings are particularly
important during mating season, when the male turkeys will strut, gobble,
display their tail feathers, and walk circles around females in the hope of
breeding. The chicks that hatch 28 days later are precocial, able to leave
the nest and hunt insects within one day.
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