Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

Three adult turkeys and twenty-one poults make their way up the hillside at dawn...

I am told that the California wild turkey was hunted to extinction in the 1920s--"Ma! Get a net!" These are Texas wild turkeys, and are animals that are neither "native" nor "non-native" but rather "near native."

I think that their edge over other ground-birds in American suburbia is that they do not fear cats much...