State Biologist Talks Turkey at Environmental Commission Meeting

Apparently, single young men at 80s dance parties aren’t the only creatures on Earth who talk a lot and strut their stuff to attract the opposite sex.

Turns out wild turkeys, do it, too.

That and other facts about eastern wild turkeys were offered during a presentation at the Oct. 21 Environmental Commission meeting. Tony McBride, a biologist with the state Division of Fish and Wildlife, spent about an hour talking about the history, proclivities and other aspects of the fowl known scientifically as “Meleagris gallopavo.”