Volume 53 • November 3, 2023
Welcome to
🦜 The Flyer 🦜
by Flying Colors
Every month, we share original content written by the Flying Colors team, fascinating stories & tidbits from the world of birding, curated products, epic bird photos, and more.
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Bird of the Week: The Wild Turkey
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Found in North America
 Hear Their Calls
If you don’t know much about Wild Turkeys besides how you can draw one with the outline of your hand, now’s your chance to learn more about this common creature. Turkeys are one of the largest birds in the United States and can be found roaming the forests year-round—except in Alaska. They forage along the ground in conspicuous, beauty-challenged packs looking for ground vegetation like berries and acorns as well as insects.
Their famous, giggle-inducing gobble is usually only heard during mating season when males call to attract females. When they do so they puff up their feathers, spread their tails, engorge their drooping face wattles, and strut around like they own the place.
Fun fact: America’s lust for Turkey meat meant their numbers had seriously dwindled by the 1940s, but people began to try to restore the populations by capturing wild birds and transporting them to other areas. It worked, and they are no longer a threatened population. (Bonus fun fact: Turkeys can swim!)
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Now available on Walmart.com!
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Birds Love Our Organic Bird Food!
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Flying Colors’ stylish organic wild bird food is made with 100% USDA certified organic ingredients that birds love.
Choose from five custom blends — Pine Plains, Woodstock, Millbrook, Black Oil Sunflower, and Squirrel-Proof Safflower — all made with 100% USDA certified organic ingredients like, sunflower hearts and safflower, and hand-mixed with love in New York's Hudson Valley.
Our blends are now available on Walmart.com!
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Give a Hoot
Birding bits you should know about this week
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🦴 Learn
The evolution of hummingbirds
Learn how the lithe hummingbirds evolved into the hovering machines they are today over 50 million years—and how certain plants adapted to their taste for nectar.
🌻 Celebrate
This petal, this earth
A writer’s love letter to hummingbirds as they head out on their fall journeys, and the healing powers of nature’s synsynchronicities
📷 Feast Your Eyes
Bird Photographer of the Year 2023 winners
Check out the top photographs chosen from 23,000 entries in categories including “Birds in Flight,” “Comedy Brid Photo,” and photographers 17 and under. Just click on a photo to enlarge it and see it in all its glory.
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Your Shot
An amazing bird photo taken by one of our community members. Submit yours to hello@flyingcolors.co to be considered for an upcoming edition!
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Now to their roosts wild turkeys stray,
And ambush'd hunters seek their prey.
This wandering, shy, secluded bird,
This roamer of the forest-ground,
Thro' all the Western wilderness,
In dense, embowering haunt is found.
— from the poem “Wild Turkey” by Isaac McLellan, Jr.
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About Us
Flying Colors makes premium organic wild bird food, offering ethically sourced, toxin-free seeds and nuts of the highest quality to nourish wild birds of all types and inspire birders of all ages. Each specialty blend and single origin creation is rigorously sourced & researched, and every jar is produced with love & packaged by hand in small batches in New York's Hudson Valley and tested in our own backyards.
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