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From: grp@Unify.com (Greg Pasquariello)
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Subject: Re: OUTDOOR: Wild turkeys?
Message-ID: <1991Feb14.163138@Unify.com>
Date: 15 Feb 91 00:31:38 GMT
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In article <5211@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, geek@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Chris
Schmandt) writes:

> In article <144605@pyramid.pyramid.com> sandra@pyrtech.pyramid.com (Sandra
Macika) writes:
> >

> Having watched a group of 4 today for 15 minutes today, I'd have to
> vote for grey myself!  They were as close as about 20 feet overhead.
> I was just below the top of an open hill, and they were being mobbed
> by about 20 crows just over the crest.  Must have been something
> rotten on the other side!
> 
> Turkey Vultures are supposedly expanding their range north
> along the east coast.  I'm pretty sure we didn't have them
> around here 10 years ago.  Now I see them nearly every time I
> climb the local hills.

So are black vultures.  They are nearly a sure thing now in central
NJ, and have been regular in southern NY for about 3 years.  This past
year, the Mt. Peter Hawkwatch in Greenwood Lake NY, tallied them almost
every day!

> 
> chris

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