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Audubon had observed and drawn wild turkeys in Kentucky and the Ohio Valley through the early 1820s, capturing the species at life size, a decision that drove the folio's famous double-elephant format. Benjamin Franklin had famously argued for the turkey over the bald eagle as the national bird, and Audubon's placement of this plate first carries that cultural weight deliberately. The original watercolor studies were executed in \u003cem\u003egouache and graphite on paper\u003c\/em\u003e, and the finished aquatints, hand-colored by teams of colorists, became the standard of \u003cem\u003enatural history illustration\u003c\/em\u003e for the following century. 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