And one of their (usually a male) common tactics in a confrontation with a human is to flap up to torso height, kick the person in the chest or back to knock them over, and then attack them on the ground.
The record-sized adult male wild turkey, according to the National Wild Turkey Federation, weighed 16.85 kg (37.1 lb), with records of tom turkeys weighing over 13.8 kg (30 lb) uncommon but not rare. -Wikipedia
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They sure can glide (over my car on way to work some mornings from orchard to lower fields) and can get up into trees to roost (feeling like you have vultures above you while you walk to house from barn, don’t trip…)
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