One of the many signs of the new spring is that wild turkeys are meandering home, if they haven’t checked back in already.
It’s not like turkeys do a migration on foot like their smaller feathered cousins do on the wing. Other species with less bulk to move and with far more flight potential may migrate toward more southerly, warmer environments each fall, then return in late winter or spring. Depending on the species, some of these routinely fly hundreds of miles to escape the harder, leaner times of winter.
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