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Re: Wild turkeys
- To: "'carolinabirds@duke.edu'" <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: Re: Wild turkeys
- From: Marsha Stephens <stephens@mail.fpg.unc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 18:11:32 -0400
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
The term is rafter of turkeys.
and is "related to raft in the sense of 'a large and often motley collection of
people and things, as a raft of books,' according to Webster. It is also
related to raff, which means a collection of things, and appears in some
interesting variations in riffraff and raffish." James Lipton, An Exaltation of
Larks
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Marsha Stephens
Computer & Network Support Services
FPG Child Development Center
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
(919) 966-4183
marsha_stephens@unc.edu
Patsy Bailey wrote:
> Alleghany County and environs appear to be enjoying an abundance of wild
> turkeys. On Sunday my brother and I awoke to 5 noisy turkeys in the yard.
> It looked like 2 males and 2 females and a partially albino female. Later
> in the day, we saw a flock of 17 on the other side of the Little River, a
> half mile away as turkeys fly, and the partial albino was in their midst.
> Even later that day and many miles away we saw from the road another couple
> of flocks, numbering at least another 35 turkeys.
>
> What's the territory range or size for a flock of 17 turkeys? Is flock even
> the right word?
>
> Location: side roads off of Highway 18 in the vicinity of the Little River.
>
> Patsy Bailey
> pbailey@fhi.org
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