Critter News

JANUARY 10, 2012

Once again, the wonderful Mercy for Animals provides footage of possible abuse of turkeys at a Butterball farm in North Carolina. The full story is at CNN.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Many Americans will spend part of their Thanksgiving holiday participating in “Turkey Trot” fun runs, followed by the annual feast at which turkey is the star attraction. But what to do when the turkey fights back? Sometimes, though, running from a turkey might be your best bet.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2011

What is up with all the frickin’ Wild Turkeys out there? This is the time of year when I tend to see turkeys dead on the side of the road. News stories of turkeys causing car accidents abound around the US right now. In Boston, a turkey was the cause of a 2 car accident during the morning commute.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2013

The Turkey Vulture ( Cathartes aura ) is probably one of the most misunderstood birds in North America. link] Then there is the “delta wing posture” when Turkey Vultures face the sun and often preen. I think Turkey Vultures deserve a lot more respect from we humans and especially birders.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The iconic turkey, star of Thanksgiving, also seems to enjoy playing a good game of soccer! Now here is something you don’t see everyday! What do you think? Could they win the world cup?

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Critter News

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Farm Sanctuary has a cool "Adopt-a-Turkey" project. I definitely want to do this.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

There is a flock of Wild Turkeys that strut around like they own the place and they might very well be right. After all, there is no hunting and while I watched the turkeys they routed a feral cat that dared come near the flock of twelve which consisted of two tom turkeys and ten hens.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

But I will say that this attention on her turkey slaughter interview is a bit hypocritical. Sure, there was a turkey being ground up behind her, but, come on. That is the reality of where Thanksgiving turkey dinners come from. I hate it when people say "Happy Turkey Day" or, as today, "gobble gobble."

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Our 9-day trip to Turkey in September was short, and it was not about birding. Our hosts wanted us to see at least one of Turkey’s biblical sites, along with a small archaeological site in the center of Smyrna that we had visited. Could this individual have done the same, across Turkey’s Bosphorus straits, recently?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

Rather than go into great detail about a variety of vultures as we have in the past, I tracked down five great quotes about Turkey Vultures , or, at least, five quotes that are either about Turkey Vultures or generically about vultures. Today is International Vulture Awareness Day ! That’s just not right.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2011

After hanging up my mother mentioned, offhand, that my aunt had a pile of young Wild Turkeys in her yard. I called my aunt back, who confirmed the turkeys were still there, made sure Desi had eaten enough pancakes, and then I took the short drive to my Aunt Bonnie’s house to see some Wild Turkeys.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2023

Dave Gosney’s Finding Birds Series covers mostly the Western Palearctic and describes birding in various regions of Portugal, Spain, Morocco, France, Finland, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, etc., with some additions, namely South Texas, The Gambia, and Goa (India).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2012

Watch out for Wild Turkeys going wild in western Michigan! It seems that they have taken to crashing through windows and windshields. Though, as the news report points out, it is likely just because it is their breeding season and the hormones are getting to them… a.

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Reddit Animals

MARCH 24, 2023

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

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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10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2011

We at 10,000 Birds have mentioned before the unpopularity of the Wild Turkeys of Staten Island. Police are looking for a driver who apparently intentionally drove into a flock of turkeys in Dongan Hills, Staten Island, on Monday. Sadly, it seems that someone has taken the hatred to a whole new level. The poor little poults?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2011

I had spotted a Turkey Vulture ! Well, I had looked out the sliding glass door that leads to my balcony and spotted a large bird that seemed to have the flight pattern of a Turkey Vulture but I needed to drop the darned phone and grab the binoculars that live near the door for exactly this purpose. What had happened?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2020

So, it’s always late November when we trot out the turkey-themed drinks to coincide with the American Thanksgiving holiday. And to be clear, that’s the Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), a bird I always enjoy seeing no matter the time of year. We’re nothing if not unfailingly predictable here at Birds and Booze.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2022

I will start by telling you about encounters in Turkey with two special bird families. But no, I had to travel to Turkey to meet them in the wild. Then, the people we were visiting in Turkey took us to their favorite waterside walk in the large city of Izmir. Turkey can get really hot in the summer. (It

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Next Thursday is the American Thanksgiving holiday – which means it’s time to trot out that old legend concerning Benjamin Franklin’s opinions on two iconic American birds: The Wild Turkey ( Meleagris gallopavo ) and the Bald Eagle ( Haliaeetus leucocephalus ). There’s no “Eagle Day”, is there?

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Tags: PETA farm animal welfare thanksgiving turkey massacre.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Or if the big meal is already behind you, we still have December holidays and gatherings to look forward to, where this week’s 2016 Goldeneye Pinot Noir from the Goldeneye Winery will serve you just as well as it would have on Turkey Day.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2020

But when a single Turkey Vulture slowly rode the thermals up the mountainside, I had to take a picture. Turkey Vultures can be surprisingly handsome birds when their silvery primaries catch the light. Turkey Vulture. A Zone-tailed Hawk imitating a Turkey Vulture. Nice forest!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2020

My Laurelito trip was topped off by my discovery, when I walked back to my car, that it had been turned into a turkey perch. A group of exceedingly tame domestic turkeys had gathered near it, and two had decided it looked like a great roosting site. ” These guys would have let me pet them, had I been so inclined.

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Creature Talk

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Around Thanksgiving last year, People for the Ethical Treatement of Animals (PETA) released undercover video footage of Aviagen Turkeys Inc. slaughterhouse employees abusing live turkeys. I met a few turkeys when I visited Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen. Look at how beautiful they are!

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Reddit Animals

AUGUST 3, 2022

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

have our minds on turkeys right about now. As we approach a long holiday season, birders’ thoughts turn to more than just meals and merriment. Songs of turtledoves and swans a’swimming are not far off, but we in the U.S. Plenty of other species stopped by, of course, but they were sorely outnumbered.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2021

I had to hit the highway for a long-distance errand this weekend, which gave me lots of views of Turkey Vultures soaring over hillsides ablaze with autumnal colors. Last weekend hosted many of the international organized bird watching festivities, but every weekend offers the opportunity for avian observation excitement. What did you find?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2019

I recently despaired of ending this calendar year without seeing a single Wild Turkey when that species used to be so reliable in my part of New York. Luckily, we spied a large flock of turkeys from the highway between Syracuse and Binghamton.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

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.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2006

It's been 25 years to the day since I ate turkey. Consequently, no turkey has suffered or died on my account for the past quarter century. Has my abstention from turkey for the past quarter century made any difference? There is still a turkey industry in existence, but I haven't contributed to it in any way in 25 years.

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Reddit Animals

AUGUST 1, 2021

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Isn’t it funny how we call this holiday Turkey Day even though most barnyard poultry probably hate it? I hope all of our American friends had a splendid Thanksgiving and extended weekend. If gobblers could vote, they’d likely promote Tofurkey Day instead.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

This woman is a complete dumbass. And yes, you will be hearing more about her here. We've been following her destructive policies since before she brought her trailer trash values down to the lower 48, and we'll keep following her until she leaves office.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

I thought for sure that Wild Turkeys on the wing would be the highlight of my birding weekend, but that we before I came upon a Barred Owl in broad daylight perched on a power line in Alma, NY. Valentine’s Day on a Sunday delivers the perfect weekend for everyone who identifies as both a bird lover and a lovebird.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2014

The only bird we saw in every state was the Turkey Vulture. But the turkey vultures would certainly leave the places we saw them – Montana, North Dakota, Illinois and Indiana, Pennsylvania and Ohio and eventually New York – and head south. Birds moving New York turkey vulture' The carrion smells promising here.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2013

In truly absurd, I am not making this up news, villagers in Turkey recently accused a bird of being an Israeli spy. There’s a joke in here somewhere stemming from the fact that the country’s name is Turkey. Interestingly, this wasn’t the first time a stray Israeli-banded bird has come under suspicion in Turkey.

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