Urban Wildlife - Meet Tommy and Henrietta
George and his Backyard Critters – Meet “Tommy” and “Henrietta”:
“Tommy” and “Henrietta” are the wild turkeys who live in the neighborhood and visit our bird feeder once in a while. We don’t see the turkeys very often, maybe it’s because they can go 14 to 20 days without food.
Michigan turkeys disappeared in the late 1800’s. In the 1950’s, wildlife biologists reintroduced turkeys in southwestern Michigan and later in the northern part of the state. Today, there are about 200,000 wild turkeys roaming around Michigan.
Two of those turkeys live in our Forest Hills neighborhood. They are the Eastern Wild Turkey variety.
