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REAL ESTATE ANSWERS: Why are there so many wild turkeys around these days?

This is not exactly a real estate question, but it is something I have been really wondering about myself! When I was growing up, I don’t remember ever encountering a wild turkey.  Now it seems they’re everywhere, not just in the Bay Area, but in other parts of the country as well.  A quick google search turns up articles about the abundance of wild turkeys in Massachusetts, Alabama, Chicago, Tennessee, Ohio, and lots of other places.  Just a few days ago, I sat in my car at a stoplight and watched a gang of turkeys cross Marin Avenue at the [...]

By |September 28th, 2018|General Interest|

REAL ESTATE ANSWERS: Why are there so many wild turkeys around these days?

This is not exactly a real estate question, but it is something I have been really wondering about myself! When I was growing up, I don’t remember ever encountering a wild turkey.  Now it seems they’re everywhere, not just in the Bay Area, but in other parts of the country as well.  A quick google search turns up articles about the abundance of wild turkeys in Massachusetts, Alabama, Chicago, Tennessee, Ohio, and lots of other places.  Just a few days ago, I sat in my car at a stoplight and watched a gang of turkeys cross Marin Avenue at the very busy intersection of San Pablo. They were even using the crosswalk!

An article from last November in the Washington Post (not surprisingly, published just before Thanksgiving) talks broadly about the history of wild turkeys in the U.S.. Wild turkeys were abundant at the time when the first European settlers landed, although they were supposedly not on the menu at the first Thanksgiving dinner. Over time, unrestricted hunting decimated the wild turkey population, until the early 20th century when there were only about 200,000 wild turkeys in the lower 48 states, living mostly in remote areas.  Conservation efforts began after World War II, and they became very successful when they started trapping wild birds and relocating them to areas with “turkey deficits.”  The wild turkey population rebounded, reaching a high of 7 million in 2004.  Wild turkey numbers nationally have since fallen to about 6 million, but it doesn’t seem like the numbers are going down in this area!

More locally, an SFGate article suggests that extended drought in past years led turkeys to move from dry wilderness areas to irrigated urban areas.  So even though the total wild turkey population has gone down nationally, we are seeing more of them in the Berkeley area. Once the turkeys have moved to a more urban environment, they thrive, with few predators and limited (or no)hunting.

The Washington Post and SFGate articles are available online:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2017/11/22/heres-the-deal-with-all-those-turkeys-terrorizing-the-suburbs/?noredirect =on&utm_term+.9255bf138765

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/wild-turkeys-California-depredation-permit-poop-12309195.php

 

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Marilyn Garcia, PhD

Marilyn Garcia, PhD Broker Associate, Realtor® CA DRE LICENSE #01355514

The Grubb Company 1656 Shattuck Avenue Berkeley, CA 94709

Direct: (510) 390-5406

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