Wild Turkeys
Turkeys did not exist in Washington state until the 1960s. Now large flocks of the birds can be found in many urban neighborhoods.
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Turkeys wander on Girard Place in Spokane on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019. Large flocks of the wild birds roam urban neighborhoods in Spokane.
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Turkeys wander on Girard Place in Spokane on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019.
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Turkeys wander on Girard Place in Spokane on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019. Turkeys are not native to the Pacific Northwest, but they thrive here.
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Turkeys wander on Girard Place in Spokane on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019. Turkeys were introduced to Washington as a game bird in the 1960s.
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Turkeys wander on Girard Place in Spokane on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019.
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Turkeys wander on Girard Place in Spokane on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019.
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A turkeys forages for food in a back yard of a house on Girard Place in Spokane, Wash., Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019.
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A wild turkey roams among the parking meters and parked cars on Riverside Avenue, Friday, March 22, 2019, in downtown Spokane, Wash.
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Soaked by the recent rain and fog, Monday, Aug. 28, 2018, a turkey family strolls down Glennaire Ave. in Spokane
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A turkey seeks refuge in a pine tree after a neighborhood dog gave chase, Friday, May 12, 2017, on Spokane's south hill.
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Wild turkeys roam the corner of 17th Avenue and Wall Street looking for a meal in the snow, Monday, Nov. 6, 2017, in Spokane, Wash.
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Wild turkeys meander across Lincoln Street at 16th Avenue and hinder morning traffic, Jan. 6, 2017, in Spokane, Wash.
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A large tom turkey struts among a group of hens on 17th Ave. on Spokane's South Hill, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015. The flock slowed, and occasionally stopped, morning commuter traffic on Bernard St. before moving off to a side street.
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A rafter of Wild turkeys wonder through a yard at 18th Avenue and Lincoln on Spokanes South Hill in 2014. The wild turkey population is growing around town.
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Turkeys look through a window into Mountain View Middle School in Spokane Valley, Wash. on Tuesday Nov. 21, 2006, under a no weapons sign. The wild turkeys make a visit to the school almost every day.
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Martin the turkey takes a leisurely stroll past the main entrance of the Heritage Funeral Home on Government Way in Spokane, Wash. in 2001. Martin, who showed up around Thanksgiving, has adopted the Heritage Funeral Home as his new home.
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Idaho Fish and Game employees Ted Schmidt, Darold Morgan and Julie Scanlin tie boxes of turkeys for relocation in 1989.
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Pictured here is a wild turkey in 1976.
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Wild turkeys in 1975.
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Pictured here are Merriam's turkeys in 1970.
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Not overly alarmed, a wild turkey watches the photographer near a road in the Rice area. Best turkey hunting in the fall of 1968 was in the Rice-Hunters area of Stevens County.
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L.A. Allgaier, Valley, shows an 8-pounder he shot out of a tree on the Louis Englehart farm near Cedonia. Jones and Hoose were driving along the main road when they spotted a flock of 10 turkeys. Allgaier was one of several hunters who bagged turkeys on the Englehart farm in 1965.
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Six wild turkeys make their way down to Lake Roosevelt in the Gifford area of Stevens County in 1965.
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Stanley E. Guenther of Spokane, game biologist for the state game department, holds a wild turkey just before releasing the bird in 1961. The turkey was one of 15 obtained from the Wyoming game department and released near the Columbia river south of Kettle Falls. The department hoped the birds will thrive and eventually be numerous enough to provide hunting. Wild turkeys are wary and said to be as hard to hunt as whitetail deer.
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