Mikel
I missed that show on the ABC... have seen other shows in the past. Scrub turkey's must suffer from extreme stress, I have seen them drop dead from a apparent heart attacks or sun storke well waste not whant not
Muzz

Hi Mikel,
          I missed the doco also but will watch for a repeat-sounds good.
          Yeah I can back you on the 'ol scrub turkey cooking up well. It used to be fairly common fare whilst living at Almaden. I saw my mother shoot one once and when we recovered the said bird, we could not find any bullet wound.
I can remember that had everyone bemused and the most common reasoning was the bird overstressed and carked it.
When it was taken home Mum became a Cult Figure due to the fact the bullet did in fact hit the bird and as it had been a rear end shot the bullet had struck the "Diamond Dot" and had exited via the mouth chipping the beak on the way out.
It was talk in the houshold for quite some time & the bird was quite tender too.

All the best
The Roosel

Had last week in Lismore northern N.S.W.. stayed at a  motel... scrub turkeys part of the land scape along with koalas great to see, five k's from the centre of town.
Muzz