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Comment by gwbas1c | Hacker News Reader

In Massachusetts (US), the wild Turkey is making a comeback.

They shit all over the place.

But it's so cool seeing them prance all over the place that I'll put up with a little poo on the ground. When they do their mating dance, they look like peacocks.

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In upstate NY, we seen them in our backyard. I'm planning to plant American hazel (Corylus americana), a native species, to try to attract/feed more of them (and other wildlife). They eat this plant's mast (fallen nuts).

A few years ago I was in Cambridge, MA for a few months and was amazed you guys have wild turkeys hanging out in the middle of the city. I would occasionally be walking down a city street and there'd just be a group of large wild turkeys walking down the sidewalk.

So are coyotes, beavers, hawks, and even bears.

This is probably a function of human development, but I am only saying this out of instinct. These mammals have probably adapted to us and are following where we go.

If we're talking about coyotes in the NE they were never native, they're new. Deer are a huge pest now, they're missing the wolves and foxes that kept them under control.

They weren't native to the NE because the native populations of wolves kept them out of the area.

I was so excited to roll up to my grandparents house for Thanksgiving and have to stop for wild turkeys crossing the road.

Why did you capitalize turkey?

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