Hi Folks,
I'm wondering if there are any citizen science projects going on right now with urban turkeys? I live/work in Berkeley and Oakland, and these birds have been moving into rather industrial/urban areas (not the park areas), contending with pretty fast moving traffic and getting a lot of attention. I've seen people running out of mini-marts and liquor stores, slamming on their brakes in the middle of a busy street and following the turkeys down alleyways snapping pictures. The turkeys seem actually like an incredibly good outreach tool in areas where there isn't a whole lot of natural landscape. I should say that these don't seem to be someone's escaped pets - today I saw just two, but last time it was a flock of 6 or 7 gorging on an abandoned trash pile in an industrial area. Is there any sort of "urban turkey tracker" going on? I'd be keen to find out and if not, maybe someone would be interested in launching one. Cheers, Minda -- Minda Berbeco, PhD Programs and Policy Director National Center for Science Education 420 40th Street, Suite 2 Oakland, CA 94609-2509 Phone: 510.601.7203 or 800-290-6006 Fax: 510-601-7204 http://ncse.com/climate Visiting Scholar University of California Museum of Paleontology 1101 Valley Life Sciences Building Berkeley, CA 94720-4780 http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/ <http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/index.php>
