Why Wild Turkeys Hate The Wild

When the birds were reintroduced to New England after a long absence, they chose to live in cities instead of the forests they once called home.
A wild turkey in Rio Grande Valley, South Texas.
A wild turkey in Rio Grande Valley, South Texas.
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William Bradford, looking out at Plymouth from the Mayflower in 1620, was struck by its potential. “This bay is an excellent place,” he later wrote, praising its “innumerable store of fowl.” By the next autumn, the new colonists had learned to harvest the “great store of wild turkeys, of which they took many.”

Soon, they took too many...

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