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 an actual turkey is unknown. Care to enlighten us in the comments?
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
It’s gratitude that it wasn’t chosen as the national bird, otherwise Americans would have to eat Bald Eagles at Thanksgiving, and they taste like stale fish.
An inflatable anything on the front lawn is the question for me.
Have a great holiday!