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The strutting display of ocellated turkeys is referred to as dancing by the people of Central America.

There appears to be a good correlation of ocellated turkey spur length with age; the longer the spur, the older the turkey.

The ocellated turkey is referred to as pavo and pavo ocelado by Central American locale, and its Mayan Indian name is ucutz il chican.

On rare occasions, female ocellated turkeys have been spotted with spurs.

An ocellated turkey's tail spots are similar to a peacock's, causing scientists to once believe it was more related to peafowl.

Legs of adult male ocellated turkeys have pronounced spurs that are longer and more attenuated than those of North American gobblers.

The ocellated turkey only exists in a 50,000 square mile area on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, northern Belize, and the El Petén region of northern Guatemala.

The head of the male ocellated turkey has a fleshy blue crown adorned with yellow-orange nodules which enlarge during breeding season.

The spots on the ocellated turkey's tail helped give it its name, as the Latin word for "eye" is "oculus".

The ocellated turkey is the smallest species of turkey and is significantly smaller than any of the 5 subspecies of North American wild turkeys.

Very little research has been done on the ocellated turkey and less is known about it than any other turkey species or subspecies.

The ocellated turkey is one of only 2 species of turkey in the world, the other being the North American wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo).

It may be possible to age male ocellated turkeys based on the width of the rich copper band on their wings as adults of both sexes appear to have wider bands.

Leg lengths of the ocellated turkey differ between sexes as females have shorter legs than males.

Both sexes of ocellated turkeys have distinctive caruncle-like growths, called nodules, but they're more pronounced on males.