News Headline
Climate change forcing Ontario’s wild turkeys further north
Source
The Star (Canada)
Publication Date
2015-12-29
Ontario’s wild turkeys, sometimes seen feeding on farmers’ fields or gracing dinner tables, are on the trot thanks to climate change. Although hunted to extinction in this province more than 100 years ago, the birds were reintroduced in 1984 and flourished in the forests and fields of Southern Ontario, even venturing into urban areas.