[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

[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...

[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]

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

[RichInOC]

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

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

[Kay Ludlow]

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

I'm inclined to agree. Not because I don't think it's possible, there's a lot more wildlife thriving in human habitat than The Nature Company would like to admit; but this bird seems to be spending a lot of time sitting and walking around close to people - on balconies and the like. Turkey in the wild scatter pretty quickly at the sight of people. I would think a wild turkey would be pretty skittish just from all the sights and sounds in a city, let alone all the people. My guess it that it was caught as a chick, raised by people, then escaped or was let go, explaining why it's comfortable knowing people are looking at it.

[StriperSniper]

no way did this hen find her way to NYC

I wouldn't be suprised. Right across the Hudson River, in Hudson County, we have a population of pheasant, herons, and egrets. I never know what's going to turn up next.

[Clemenza]

Well, last year they found a deer on Staten Island. It was suggested that it had swam across Arthur Kill from New Jersey, but if that were the case, its skin would have burned off en route.