Independence Day is typically filled with revelry — many people drink American beer, shoot explosives into the sky and rock red, white and blue apparel that may not be appropriate for everyday wear.

It is Nature’s gift, as November closes around us and the resident birds retreat into the forest, that there is one bird brave enough to venture out—Meleagris gallopavo, the wild turkey, subspecies ...

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