Earth Almanac by Ted Williams

Author:Ted Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: nature writing;nature gift;nature essay;nature conservation;climate change;Audubon;earth calendar;ecosystems;Animal book;birds;gift for nature lover;science and nature;endangered;fishing;climate;environmental;earth friendly;make a difference;illustrated nature;nature illustration;outdoor education;learning about nature;natural world;animal conservation
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Published: 2020-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

Hunted to Abundance

The only thing a tom turkey displaying on a spring strutting ground can possibly be mistaken for, say veteran wild turkey hunters, is a politician. The fleshy parts of his face turn bright red; he puffs himself up, spreads his tail, struts back and forth, and spews rhetoric best translated as “gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble.”

There are only two species of turkey: Meleagris gallo­pavo of North America (represented in the wild by five subspecies and domesticated by Native Americans about 2,000 years ago) and the smaller, more colorful M. ocellata of southern Mexico and Central America. Other ­species, now extinct, lived on both New World continents, but apparently turkeys have never occurred naturally anywhere else.

Nearly wiped out by market hunters, wild turkeys have been restored by intelligent hunting regulations and state trap-and-transfer programs funded by sportsmen. Since 1930 they’ve increased in North America from something like 20,000 to about five million.

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