East Brunswick Patch: Have You Seen a Wild Turkey Yet? The Amazing Recovery of the Wild Turkey!


Photo Credit: Dave Moskowitz  

By Dave Moskowitz: The Wild turkey has made an incredible comeback in the northeast over the past 50 years. East Brunswick is sharing in this population explosion with sightings around town being fairly common now. Historically, Wild turkeys were abundant in New Jersey and throughout the northeast, but by sometime in the 1800's they were extirpated. I pulled my well-worn copy of the 1908 NJ State Museum Birds of New Jersey out of my bookshelf and the entry for Wild turkey reads "Long extinct in New Jersey. Letters of early voyagers show that Turkeys must have occurred throughout the State as they found "stores of them" in Cape May County." These early faunal reports give a great overview of how our populations of many species are ever-changing, not to mention they make interesting reading.  

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Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 9/3/2011 10:00 AM
Categories: Birds
Tags: wild turkey East Brunswick birds northeast cape may county
 

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