Short Flight to a New Year

2010 marked the 25 anniversary of the reintroduction of Wild Turkeys to Southern Ontario. Once plentiful, the species had been severely reduced from loss of habitat and excessive hunting decades earlier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Turkey

Now the large bird is a fair candidate to be woven into the weirdly conflict-centered story formula employed by Canadian media.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2008/03/11/wild-turkeys.html

Oblivious to their role as an undefined threat, the large birds typically remain focused upon their own business of survival in the woodlands and fields of the southern part of the province. A group of wild birds were recently walking along the very edge of the Niagara escarpment – where the Time Traveller glimpsed them on New Year’s Day.