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Wild Turkeys Make a Comeback in North America

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By Glynn Wilson – Beginning around the time of the first Thanksgiving harvest feast in North America in the 1620s, European settlers almost wiped out native wild turkeys on the continent by the early-20th century. Conservation efforts since the 1970s, however, have been successful, and the population has made a comeback to an estimated 7…