Ecotone

All hail our Turkey overlords

In Animals, Ecology, Ecotone, Environment on 22 November 2007 with no comments

Turkeys are invading our suburbs and cities. And they’re wild. The seven million wild turkeys in the United States, once thought to be suited only to wide expanses of unbroken forest, are adapting to urban environments better than biologists predicted. While the wild turkeys I’ve seen seemed pretty spooked around people, Chris Leahy, of the [...]