grgr(5)Turkey Dodoes

[calbert at pop.tiac.net]

> As the colonists began
> to stake territory and set up farms, villages and eventually
> cities, they destroyed the turkey's crucial food and nesting
> sites in forests and waterways. Eventually, the industrial
> revolution polluted many of the country's rivers, further
> reducing endangered flocks. Turkey populations  declined
> because of wide-scale logging, illegal poaching and hunting,
> poor habitats and even the devastation of the Civil War and
> Great Depression, when food quality was sparse and the
> turkey was considered an easy catch and good eating.

A turkey is only easy with a .22. They are remarkably sharp birds, 
great eyesight and very wary, to call one in to a blind is a real 
art.
They are perhaps the most sucesssfull example of wild life 
restoration here in the US. NY state is said to be over run with them 
on occasion, one patrolls our industrial park, having apparently 
overcome much of its shyness, it can stand a mere 15 feet from my 
allegedly hunting attuned pup, while casing the joint for easy entry.

Ironically, the restoration of turkey populations has come as a 
result of the work of hunting groups like the Wild Turkey Federation. 
Go figger.

love,
cfa