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4 The Love Of Animals
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
When Freshpet reached out to us about their new turkey bacon we couldn’t help but say yes. Turkey bacon? What’s turkey bacon? After looking at the ingredient list I felt great about giving our Baby the turkey bacon. Sadly I noticed that our local grocery store doesn’t have the turkey bacon in stock yet.
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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Critter News
OCTOBER 19, 2011
Farm Sanctuary has a cool "Adopt-a-Turkey" project. I definitely want to do this.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 28, 2015
That last little bit is also why we call it “Turkey Day”! In Costa Rica, although I did spend a memorable one years ago in the Osa Peninsula where flocks of parrots flew into the mangroves while we feasted on turkey, pie, and the works, we have no actual Wild Turkeys , nor an official Thanksgiving.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 24, 2012
Most encounters people have with turkeys either involve a dead, roasted bird on a dinner table or sliced turkey between two pieces of bread. To female turkeys, however, a strutting male Meleagris gallapavo is nearly irresistible. Unlike other species that strut their stuff turkeys seem not to have set leks where they display.
Reddit Animals
MARCH 24, 2023
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
This is the time of year that we rightfully contemplate the noble Turkey. I don’t believe, but this is subject to correction, that the wild and domestic Turkey were ever called by different binomials. Photograph of a Wild Turkey at Flatrock Brook Nature Center, in Englewood, New Jersey, by Corey. And it isn’t. It’s complicated.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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."
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 17, 2022
First, this trip — to southern Spain, which I had already birded, and Turkey and Jordan, which I most certainly had not — is a work trip. And so things remained, until we arrived in Izmir, Turkey last month. The people we were visiting in Turkey. The words and images will just pour through my laptop!
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.
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.
Critter News
NOVEMBER 29, 2008
Tags: PETA farm animal welfare thanksgiving turkey massacre.
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?
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?
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
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!
Reddit Animals
AUGUST 3, 2022
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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.
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!
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?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2023
First, we had our five-week trip to Spain, Turkey and Jordan in September and October. I recently received a kind letter from a 10,000 Birds friend, who was worried that my recent irregularity in contributing to this website might indicate that something was wrong. I assured him then, and assure you now, that I am fine.
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.
Reddit Animals
AUGUST 1, 2021
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4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
Both varieties have plenty of different flavors to choose from, like Chicken & Apples , Beef & Sweet Potatoes and Turkey & Cranberries. I think the Turkey & Cranberries would be a great fit for Thanksgiving! For dogs, they offer two varieties, “Soft-Baked Naturals” and “Oven-Baked Naturals”!
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.
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.
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.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
Turkey seems to be having a moment right now. As I mentioned last week, our trip to Turkey was work-related. A surprising number of our Mexican friends would like to go there — get this — because they love Turkish soap operas. And there are, amazingly enough, direct flights from Mexico City to Istanbul.
Reddit Animals
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
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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.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2020
My kids humored me with a fun Father’s Day hike, but my best bird was spotted en route in the form of a roadside Wild Turkey (not to be confused with a Roadside Hawk ). It better be, because with limited travel in the next couple of months, bird lists are going to look mighty spare.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 4, 2020
That trip was to take my wife and I to Turkey, Jordan, and southern Spain, with stopovers near Paris. I am always delighted to spot a Zone-tailed Hawk , since this raptor is such an expert at hiding among our always-common Turkey Vultures. I should have been on my way to Istanbul by the time this post came out.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2022
Going back to that assumption that birds don’t have a sense of smell, it can be traced to John James Audubon (of course), who performed several experiments with Turkey Vultures and concluded that the vultures used sight, not scent, to find food. Also tubenoses and Kiwis can smell very well.
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.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2019
The resident Wild Turkey population is always ready for an easy meal at the feeders. This Varied Bunting was trying to glean something from this well picked over feeder tray. It is not often you can get two different grosbeaks in one picture, but here is a Black-headed Grosbeak, with a Blue Grosbeak.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 14, 2014
My Best Bird of the Weekend was a turkey, actually several Wild Turkeys. While I see turkeys intermittently all year long, these birds really look best in autumn sunlight. September migration is a fine time to appreciate birds on the wing, so fine that many of you may have missed many of our Extinction Week posts.
4 The Love Of Animals
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
Breakfast: Hill’s® Ideal Balance™ Roasted Turkey Recipe – Gourmet taste of turkey in a soft, smooth texture is a great way to start the day. If only planning for the people in the house were as easy. Of course, feel free to add in your cat’s favorites to the mix.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Very similar in size and shape to the very common Turkey Vulture , the Zone-tailed Hawk is quite often found circling on the wind currents with those very vultures. I have to admit, that I too have been lulled by the very same vultures, as on any given day here in La Paz, I can see 50 or more Turkey Vultures soaring over head.
10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2022
Both Black and Turkey Vultures dominate the skies on the larger island; any vulture seen on Tobago is a reportable species. The Turkey Vulture at its lower right seems bemused at the antics of a displaying Crested Oropendola (which unlike the rest of birds mentioned in this article, is also found on Tobago).
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