Can a Wild Turkey Find Success and Happiness in the Canyons of Manhattan?

NT Times ^ | May 23, 2003 | THOMAS J. LUECK

[Pharmboy]

Someone let her go...no way did this hen find her way to NYC

[BenLurkin]

New York, New York. "If you can make it there you can make it anywhere"

[The Red Zone]

Mr. Lindenauer insisted that the turkey was not planted on his balcony. Mr. McAdams said she could have made her way to the 28th floor by flying up from balcony to balcony, like an elevator making all the stops.

Stupid turkey wanna be an eagle?

[Bringbackthedraft]

The NY turkey population has obviously increased. They're all over the place in the NY Capital District. It appears that there is a shortage of hunters. The deer population has also increased. (I don't think they'll get to the 28th floor). In all probability someone is playing games. This turkey was probably caught north of NYC and released in the city as a prank.

[katnip]

I find it believable. Who would of thought that parrots from Argentina could survive and breed in NYC?

A snow-covered Quaker parakeet nest rests atop a utility pole in Brooklyn. The parakeets live communally in these nests all over the Flatbush neighborhood in Brooklyn.

http://www.nynewsday.com/entertainment/custom/pets/nyc-birds0209,0,1292638.story?coll=nyc-pets-headlines (Photo by Scout Tufankjian)

[Dan from Michigan]

cluck cluck cluck cluck....gooblegooble...BOOM!

Ahhh Thanksgiving...

[Servant of the Nine]

They eat insects. Manhattan has enough cockroaches to feed an almost infinite number of turkeys.
How did it get there? It flew. Unlike domestic birds, wild turkeys fly well.
I find the coyote a lot more inexplicable.

So9

[LittleRedRooster]

Ted Nugent was on the radio here in Dallas the other morning and he had just returned from hunting wild turkey here in Texas. He stated that there are more turkeys in the State of Texas than there were when we became a country.

The explosion of wildlife in this country has gone crazy and if the anit-hunting group gets their way many cities will have deer and turkey problems.

[Snidely Whiplash]

How did it get there? It flew. Unlike domestic birds, wild turkeys fly well.

Indeed. They're also likely to turn up in strange places. I recently encountered an ENORMOUS male wild turkey sitting right near the curb near a very busy intersection. It had recently snowed, and the bird was just...sitting there, apparently unfazed by the traffic. When I got home I called the Humane Society. They said that that sort of thing happens from time to time. They had someone already out there, chasing the thing around.

Out here in the Plains, as the cities and suburbs reach further out into the landscape, we wind up taking over a lot of the spaces where the animals live. After a while, a lot of them get fed up with being run out of their places and move back in. There was a deer that decided to take a stroll in the Omaha airport terminal just last week in fact.

I find the coyote a lot more inexplicable.

Coulda been sick, coulda just worked its way back in from the forests. Coyotes, being dogs, are extremely adaptable. Central Park is a big patch of land, and there are doubtless plenty of stray and wild prey for a single animal. Similarly, foxes are quite happy to live in urban areas - England in particular is awash in urban foxes.

Snidely

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Can a Wild Turkey make it in New York?
YES! In a bottle right next to the Thunderbird.

[tubebender]

Here is one for you to ponder...

[SAJ]

Correct. Two-legged or six-legged, plenty of both. I wouldn't wonder at all that the turkey hen (the 'turkette'??) did quite well.

[farmfriend]

There is actually a Turkey Crossing sign just up the road from my house. No, I do not live in the country.

[SAJ]

'WILL have'??

Pardon me for asserting that your use of the FUTURE tense is utterly false-to-fact. Sundry deer are hit/run over/otherwise a problem daily here in even the INNER suburbs of STL, MO.

I'm thinking of borrowing a friend's F-150, fitted with a front end heavy screen, and harvesting one on the belt highway (I-270). But, I probably won't -- doubtless there are too many forms to fill out.

[wardaddy]

I have turkeys on my property in Nashville proper and coyotes are a scourge. When I lived in Miami, I had coyote in my yard in Coral Gables...a long way from the boonies.

I have seen turkeys roost much higher than 20 foot up in Mississippi swamps...more like 100 foot or so in loblollys.

[tubebender]

One day about 4 years ago my wife called me to say there was a Turkey in our yard. It was gone when I got home but the next day it was back. I called animal control because I thought it was someones pet. The officer doubted our knowledge of a turkey discription so I took some pictures and left them at her office. She called and was so excited that she spent an hour here looking at the bird.It was her first turkey. LOL

[tubebender]

The object on the railing under the Turkey looks like a Whirly Bird. I wonder if the Gobbler thought he found a mate ?

[Servant of the Nine]

Central Park is a big patch of land, and there are doubtless plenty of stray and wild prey for a single animal.

Yep, but my surprise is at a coyote comming out into the open enough to cross a bridge or pass thru a tunnel to get to Manhattan.

So9

[spectr17]

Kelp kelp kelp

[RichInOC]

Can a Wild Turkey Find Success and Happiness in the Canyons of Manhattan?

I don't know...how's Bubba doing up there?