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mon slang to refer to someone of limited intelligence and unpredictable behavior as a “turkey.” I irritated a number of my young friends by preaching that “domesticated turkey” would be more appropriate. Our native Wild Turkey “... is one more smart bird,” I would say. I hope this disservice to a great and noble American bird has now passed.
With the advance of the white man, the Wild Turkey rapidly disappeared from the eastern United States. Prime and favored food for the native bird was, and still is, acorns. As the great forests fell before the ax, the turkey was forced into the open. There it made an easy target for hunters. This noble bird, the grandest of all game birds, is now making a fine comeback with protection and re-introduction to areas where it had been eliminated.
The Wild Turkey was once so common that an early arrival from Europe, Thomas Morton, wrote in 1637: “Turkies there are, which divers times in great
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