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Thrilling Turkey Facts

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With the arrival of another (American) Thanksgiving, it’s time to trot out the turkey facts. This day of thanks is, after all, known as Turkey Day. An overwhelming majority of turkeys polled feel that Thanksgiving is not actually Turkey Day. In fact, it seems a lot more like Anti-Turkey Day. During U.S.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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This is the time of year that we rightfully contemplate the noble Turkey. Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Photograph of a Wild Turkey at Flatrock Brook Nature Center, in Englewood, New Jersey, by Corey. And it isn’t.

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Idlewild Wines: Flora & Fauna Red Wine (2018)

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For many of us, even the traditional centerpiece bird of the day – the domesticated Wild Turkey ( Meleagris gallopavo ) – will be downsized or even swapped out of the menu altogether. And as long as there’s a chance the turkey could be absent from your Thanksgiving table this year, why not buck tradition with your choice of wine, too?

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Heading Out for the First Day of the Great Backyard Bird Count

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Black and Turkey Vultures soared overhead, joined by the occasional Osprey. A trio of wading birds – Great Blue Heron, Snowy Egret , and Little Blue Heron – stood silently on a raised hillock of plants. . Magnolias and cherries are blooming, and dandelions line the grassy borders of the road.

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The return of the Old Man

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Nesting is now confined to Morocco, irregularly in Boghari in Algeria and in Birecik, Turkey.” (The Sadly, they no longer breed in Algeria, while in Turkey no free-flying birds remain. (In Many have been shot since the project started, despite a great deal of publicity raising awareness of the birds.

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Anderson Valley Brewing Company: Huge Arker

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There isn’t a more obvious association between any American holiday and birds than that between Thanksgiving and the Wild Turkey ( Meleagris gallopavo ), so when your blogging gig is reviewing booze for a birding website, needless to say you need to find a turkey-themed beer. Happy Thanksgiving drinking and good birding!

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Thermometer birds

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The Australian Brush-turkey is far enough removed from the American Turkey’s Phasianidae family to not even get considered for wedding and funeral invitations. The scrub-turkey male must also be able to accurately gauge the temperature as he needs to adjust the nest to maintain it at the perfect incubating range between 33 and 35C.

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