The people in Massachusetts, he argued, may also be playing a role by accidentally feeding the turkeys with bird feeders or intentionally scattering seed. Scarpitti warned that feeding the birds will ...

Touching farm animals is a bad idea as bird flu spreads. “They can be infected with a lot of influenza, not only this H5N1, but other subtypes circulating,” said Martinez-Sobrido.

After near-extinction, the feathery birds have rebounded in a big way. Now, they're overrunning this city and others.

“Meleagris Gallopavo Day” is a bit of a mouthful. Which may be why this Thanksgiving, most people will opt for the less ornithologically precise “Turkey Day.” And just as turkey is a ...

Philosopher Peter Singer makes a compelling moral case for dropping the bird from the Thanksgiving table based on animal cruelty. But now is not the time.

All about the turkey: Stories, science and facts about Thanksgiving’s iconic bird Colorado’s wild turkeys recovered from near extinction less than 100 years ago to grow to a thriving population of ...

That bird has changed dramatically in form since then. University of California Davis animal science professor Richard Blatchford told Popular Science the jumbo-sized version of the bird really ...

Turkey That’s right—the food that’s become synonymous with Thanksgiving probably wasn’t served at the original feast; the birds weren’t common game animals at that time.

Cambridge, the roughly six square mile city across the river from Boston, is home to about 120,000 people and between 40 and 50 wild turkeys, according to city animal control officer Christina ...

After near-extinction, the feathery birds have rebounded in a big way. Now, they're overrunning this city and others.

After near-extinction, the feathery birds have rebounded in a big way. Now, they're overrunning this city and others.