This afternoon, turkey will be a welcome guest in most American homes, but don’t be fooled. Alive and free-range, Meleagris gallopavo is a danger to life, limb, and giblets. The wild birds have cracked roof tiles in California, dangerously disrupted traffic in western New York, colonized Connecticut, battled Bridgewater, Massachusetts residents, loused up lawns in the Bay Area, and terrorized Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
Wild turkeys are native to the U.S.A., so the Trump Administration won’t stop their suburban gang violence unless those great big Mexican wild turkeys take over. Note to Trump: los guajolotes grandes will just flutter over your wall.
More:
“Here’s the deal with all those turkeys terrorizing the suburbs,” Karin Brulliard, Washington Post
“Birds gone wild: Resurgent turkeys spar with human neighbors,” Collin Binkley, Phys.org
“Roads & Wildlife,” George A. Hurst, National Wild Turkey Federation Wildlife Bulletin No. 23
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