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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

10,000 Birds

The trip was probably reasonably well planned and it would have been known to these travelers that game birds, as well as deer and fish, were abundant in the region they were traveling to. The Spanish Colonial Experience and Domestic Animals. Bringing animals that would require feed and water at that early stage would have been unwise.

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I and the Bird #146

10,000 Birds

We see countries as more than just locales for landmarks and landmarks as more than just souvenirs of bygone cultures (have you ever birded Tikal in Guatemala? Perhaps you’ve had the same experience. Birding opened up Central America for me in a way that nothing else did. Wicked, right?