What are Calling sounds of a turkey?

Answer 1

It is called a turkey gobble. Actually turkeys make a variety of sounds. Of which the gobble is only one sound. A tom turkey gobbles but a hen does not. Turkeys make a variety of sounds such as: Yelp - a rhythmic 4 - 10 note series to locate other birds often in a variety of pitches, depending on the pitch and speed this can signal danger Tree Yelp - a soft short version of the basic yelp used first thing in the morning as turkeys prepare to come off their roost Cluck - soft, staccato sound used to locate and communicate with other birds. Rossting birds will cluck very softly at first light Cutt- a loud, aggressive series of fast, irregular clucks lasting 5 - 15 seconds. Used when lonely, lost or excited hens are searching for other turkeys and is heard most often in spring. Cackle

Hens cackle in 10- to 20-note series when flying up to and down from roost trees, and also when sailing across creeks, rivers, canyons and the like. Cackles, which are made up fast, irregular clucks and yelps, are followed up with basic clucks as turkeys hit the ground and gather themselves after flight.

Purr

Hens and gobblers utter this soft, fluttering call when feeding. Turkeys purr to signal contentment, when close together and relaxed. Gobble

Toms gobble in the spring primarily to attract hens, but also to show their dominance over other males. A typical gobble is loud and aggressive, lasting only one or two seconds. Toms sometimes gobble to keep tabs on each other. Spit and drum

Once thought to be the humming of a gobbler's shimmying tail feathers, biologists now agree that the spit and drum is a melodious, two-note vocalization forced deep from a gobbler's chest. A tom drums in the spring to attract hens. Kee-kee

This is a soft, musical, 3-note lost call or "whistle" of poults in autumn and winter. Some young turkeys kee-kee in the spring. The kee-kee run, an offshoot of the kee-kee, which combines whistles and lost yelps.