Windows 7 Annoyances

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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.

The cover image is from Riverside Natural History. The cover font is Adobe ITC Garamond. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font ...