{"id":2277,"date":"2022-12-12T22:54:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T22:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2023-02-10T13:44:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T13:44:56","slug":"wild-turkeys-on-the-glen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wild-turkeys-on-the-glen\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Turkeys on the Glen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to MassWildlife, today there are between 31,000 and 35,000 of these birds across the state. In 1978, there were approximately 1,000 birds across the state.\u00a0 the urban birds continue to flourish in New England. Now wildlife agencies across the region are tasked with managing both the Wild Turkeys and their human neighbors to make sure encounters don\u2019t go awry. The answer, biologists say, is simple: \u201cWe just need to stop feeding them&#8221;<br \/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/DSC_7959.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1325\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/DSC_7954.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"781\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/DSC_7951.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1042\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/DSC_7948.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"892\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/DSC_7943.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/DSC_7932.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"719\" \/><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/DSC_063c1.jpg\" sizes=\"100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/DSC_063c1.jpg 845w, https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/DSC_063c1-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/DSC_063c1-768x818.jpg 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"559\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/east_taunton_turkey_dighton-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/east_taunton_turkey_dighton-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/east_taunton_turkey_dighton-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/east_taunton_turkey_dighton-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/east_taunton_turkey_dighton.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to MassWildlife, today there are between 31,000 and 35,000 of these birds across the state. In 1978, there were approximately 1,000 birds across the state.\u00a0 the urban birds continue to flourish in New England. Now wildlife agencies across the region are tasked with managing both the Wild Turkeys and their human neighbors to make &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wild-turkeys-on-the-glen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wild Turkeys on the Glen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backyard-favorites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2319,"href":"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions\/2319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}