Help IDing tracks

[bcd]

I think they might be alien or dinosaur tracks? Or possibly turkey?

I was hiking into a vehicle restricted area in the West Kootenays on Tuesday and saw these crossing over my tracks in on the way back out, so it was there sometime between 0530 and 1100.

http://i1249.photobucket.com/albums/hh514/bc_d/misc/SDC12816.jpg

http://i1249.photobucket.com/albums/hh514/bc_d/misc/SDC12815.jpg

http://i1249.photobucket.com/albums/hh514/bc_d/misc/SDC12814.jpg

[Bc Deer Hunter]

turkey is ma guess......

[huntinnewbie]

Maybe a wandering lost Emu or Ostrich, thems awful big feet! the birds, not yours, lol.

[bcd]

Size 9.5 boots, for reference. Yeah they seemed big to me but I haven't looked at a lot of tracks before so I wasn't sure.

[Big Lew]

Most likely turkey, the only other bird large enough would be a crane but a crane's foot is much more slender. Part of our holiday involved driving on quite a few roads throughout the Kootenays and we saw several turkeys along the side of roads. It seems their population is rapidly increasing.

[Sofa King]

definitely a turkey.
an ostrich and emu have waaaay larger feet than that.

only other explanation would be an alien, right?

[Ambush]

Sandhill Crane. They are migrating now and they love, you got it, sandy areas.

[bc_buckshot]

X2 on the crane.. Second guess would be a large turkey but going closer to the crane

[Mr. Dean]

x4 on the Crane.

[d6dan]

Sandhill crane ..Here's alink to some pictures.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=sandhill+crane+tracks&hl=en&rlz=1T4ADFA_enCA444CA445&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=PeJ2UMWSC4WUjAKNnIDIDw&ved=0CCEQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=668

[warnniklz]

I don't talk turkey... But from being around domestic turkeys, I don't believe the talon off the back of a turkey's foot leaves that much of an imprint.

[The Dude]

Buy a turkey tag

http://www.bear-tracker.com/turkey.html

[Foxtail]

Veloceraptor!

[Caveman]

turkey is ma guess......

x2!.......

[Davey Crockett]

Meep meep! Watch out for boobie traps set by a coyote in the vicinty.

[bcd]

Neat, I had never even heard of the sandhill crane. Always associated cranes with water. So what would distinguish the crane track from turkey? Size and gait? There are definitely turkeys in the region, I saw a flock several years ago maybe 20-30 km from this location.


Meep meep! Watch out for boobie traps set by a coyote in the vicinty.
You might be right, I did see what looked like coyote tracks through there too. Close call :shock:.

[fuzzybiscuit]

Sandhill Crane would be my guess too, although where you see one you usually see numerous. They are all over the place at the main Suncor site in Fort Mac during the summer.

[itsy bitsy xj]

I'm really really new at hunting but I'm sure the first two pics are hiking boots

[anotherone]

sorry guys,, it is not a freakin Crane, its turkey, no doubt about it,, seen them 1000's of times, also have seen lots of crane tracks, its turkey