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On Independence Day, the 4th of July, I was sitting in the kitchen of my parents’ house drinking some coffee and sharing some homemade pancakes with Desi while my mother talked to my aunt on the phone about plans to meet at the Saugerties 4th of July parade.  After hanging up my mother mentioned, offhand, [...]

One of the things I like best is squeezing a little birding in on non-birding trips. It appeals to my sense of efficiency and environmental responsibility and presents the chance to check out places that may be off the beaten birding path, not to mention that it saves my non-driving self from having to beg [...]

What is up with all the frickin’ Wild Turkeys out there?  They are running amok!  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.  Where I live, a man driving on his [...]

On behalf of everyone here at 10,000 Birds, Wild Turkeys everywhere, and every diet-book author ever, have a Happy Thanksgiving! (Even if you aren’t American and don’t celebrate our peculiar holidays.) The reason that someone would put a giant inflatable turkey on their front yard to celebrate a day that is essentially dedicated to eating [...]

Happy Thanksgiving! While our custom on the fourth Thursday of November is traditionally to trot out some thrilling turkey facts, this may be an auspicious time to ponder the remarkable fortune of Meleagris gallopavo, the Wild Turkey. You might wonder why I would describe the bird being barbecued, baked, roasted, pan fried, and deep fried [...]

During my days at Stony Brook University, there was a local Grateful Dead cover band named Blind from Wild Turkey. This is, of course a reference to the celebrated brand of Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey but would make perfect sense if describing the impact of observing a Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) in the full flower [...]

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. Yes, the Wild Turkey is [...]

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours from the Core Team. As this holiday is called Turkey Day in a most ironic jab towards the object of American appetites, my initial instinct is to offer up a favored vegetable recipe or some fascinating facts about the Wild Turkey. However, it comes to mind that Meleagris gallopavo [...]