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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. The chance that this was a real Turkey are not great, and the chance that Columbus actually brought breeding stock from Honduras to Spain is not great, so maybe, maybe not. 78(1):61–78.

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Better Birding: A Book Review (& a New Year’s goal)

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Light blue boxes give brief facts on breeding age, strategy and lifespan. He also wrote the newly published American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Pennsylvania (Scott & Nix). Birders interested in subspecies will be delighted by the extended analyses of plumage and habitat variations.

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