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COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — With abundant letters of agrarian turkeys entering burghal areas of New England, will Maryland be next?
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You accept to wonder, accustomed the birds' accretion allure to the ablaze lights of the big cities, the access of Thanksgiving notwithstanding.
But will this turkey aggression abide further bottomward I-95?
Bob Long, who works at the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, says that it is too anon to tell.
"In Maryland, we do not see the abundance of advancing turkey situations that abounding Northeast states do," Continued told Capital News Service.
Long is the altitude adventurous bird activity administrator of the Wildlife and Heritage Service, alive about adventurous bird populations including turkey, grouse, blanch and pheasant.
In its anniversary analysis of the Eastern Agrarian Turkey population, the Department of Natural Resources has empiric a abatement in reproduction of Maryland turkeys. From 2015 to 2017, the cardinal of empiric poults, or adolescent turkeys, beneath by about 36 percent.
Long said letters of bad behavior by agrarian turkeys still are rare.
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"We do apprehend a few complaints anniversary year - mostly of turkeys roosting on houses, blocking traffic, or occasionally accepting hardly advancing appear children, pets, or cars," Continued said. "Luckily they accept been abandoned incidents."
"Perhaps it will become added accepted as turkey populations access and move into added burghal areas," Continued continued, "But alone time will tell."
It's already happened further north.
"(Turkeys) are so audacious and weird, and out of abode in an burghal setting," said Maureen Festa, a Massachusetts analysis analyst. "Until the aftermost few weeks, I saw them about daily, in Boston in my neighborhood, Jamaica Plain, and adjoining Brookline, on my drive into work."
While Festa loves seeing the turkeys, not anybody in Boston shares her enthusiasm. Boston burghal admiral accept appear a massive access in complaints of rogue turkey behavior in 2017 over antecedent years.
"I aboriginal saw them about two decades ago in Jamaica Plain, but there would aloof be one or two, and in added abounding areas like the cemetery," Festa said. "The actual aboriginal time I saw one, I alleged the badge because she was sitting in the average of the road. The bagman said, 'Are you abiding it's not a seagull?'"
She was sure.
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"Now they are everywhere," she continued. "My abutting encounters accept been back they are on the sidewalk, and I'd accept to airing about them. They can be territorial, but I haven't had any issues."
There are bristles subspecies of agrarian turkey in the United States, but alone the Eastern Agrarian Turkey has fabricated Maryland its home. The Eastern Agrarian Turkey is the official accompaniment adventurous bird of Massachusetts, absorption their continued attendance in the state.
There accept been added added letters of sightings and encounters with the birds throughout New England, from analytical turkeys pecking at their own absorption in car windows to groups nonchalantly aimless bottomward streets - including in Boston's active and awash Back Bay neighborhood.
"Turkeys may advance to boss or advance bodies that they appearance as subordinates. This behavior is empiric best generally during ancestry season," said a address appear by the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. "Once adventurous behavior is established, it can be actual difficult to change."
The department's address listed bristles tips for association to administer their encounters with the birds:
# Don't augment turkeys.
# Keep bird agriculturalist areas clean.
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# Don't let turkeys alarm you.
# Cover windows and agleam objects.
# Protect your area and crops.
In adjoining West Virginia, Laura Wilson-Gentry had a near-miss with one of the birds while active through Great Cacapon.
"We were branch bottomward a country alley and the turkey took off from arena akin and almost austere the hood, aerial at a abrupt 45-degree angle," Wilson-Gentry said. "It was a big bird and it afraid the daylights out of me."
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