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Video: Close Encounters Above Central Park?
Awesome: A turkey is currently living at outside the American Museum of Natural History. From WABC 7:
Yesterday, this very same bird was spotted across the street in Central Park. Apparently it crossed Central Park West without being hit by a car.Oh, my God - we are totally going to ask, "Why did the turkey cross the road?" all day. A few days ago, someone wrote on Gothamist Contribute that a turkey had flown into a parking garage at Trump Place at West 68th Street, but then it wandered into Riverside Park. We wonder if it's the same turkey - or if there are more than we realize, as there is definitely one in Morningside Park, one in Battery Park and one in Riverside.The museum people hope the turkey decides to return to the park where it can roam a little more free.
And now we've got Hal David and Burt Bachrach's "Turkey Lurkey Time" stuck in our head, which then makes us think about Chicken Little...which was a movie from Disney, owner of ABC...this turkey must be part of some sort of media conglomerate conspiracy, Eyewitness News van racing up there or not!
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F! disney movies, let's eat this mother!
it'll be turkey burger once it crosses the road again!
Sondheim didn't write the lyrics to "Turkey Lurkey Time"--Hal David did. Sondheim has never written anything even remotely similar to that song, not even as a joke.
Hmmmmm, Dinner....
j/k!
How on earth did it get in Manhattan? Someone captured it and abandoned it?
I apologize for my mistake re: Turkey Lurkey time's lyricist - I was all confused because I remember it in Camp which was mainly about Sondheim. I do need to brush up on my American musical theater knowledge.
I saw a turkey (probably the same) in W69 & Trump Place day before it was seen at outside the American Museum of Natural History so I guess it came from NJ. It was on the 3rd floor (above the parking garage door).
By the way, do coyotes eat turkeys? I was just thinking about one hungry Hal..Wouldn't that have been funny to see Hal catching a turkey in central park!
Turkeys are the coolest - one summer we stayed in Vermont, and a turkey used to come and sunbathe on the patio each morning. And yes, coyotes love to eat them. They don't get hit by cars very often, as they are careful crossing the roads, can run really fast, and in an emergency they can fly a short distance up into a tree. They eat corn and seeds, but also eat bugs like ticks, which is nice.
My wife and I saw a turkey last year in Battery Park before the renovations really got started. Here's a link to her blogpost (with pics) from the time: http://oniwaban.typepad.com/cloud_city/2005/05/turkey_shoot.html
I wonder where that bird is, now that all the construction has been going on for so long?
The turkey better watch out or he'll suffer the same fate as Hal the Coyote...
I'm guessing that it is fairly easy for a turkey or coyote to get into Manhattan via the MetroNorth right-of-way along the Hudson.
I wonder how many wild turkeys there are uptown. Are the Morningside, Riverside and AMNH turkeys one in the same, or three (or more) different birds?
The best kind of turkey is the Boar's Head honey maple from the deli. Slice it thin, add a little mayo and swiss, place on a nice onion roll -- mmm mmm mmm.
We saw a wild turkey downtown while waiting to take the Ellis Island ferry at the end of January (and have the photo to prove it). While I found it a little unusual, I'd hardly call it breaking news... clearly there are some around and about in the big city!
I spotted a turkey at south ferry a few days ago. It was resting behind some parked cars.
Funny how it tried to be stealth. I would hate to see what knuckleheads out there would do to it.
Wierd, because we saw a turkey that same day in Fords, NJ, and I've never seen a turkey there in my life.
There is something going on. That Turkey is not going to and from the park without human assistance.
Turkies are low flyers and if it is flying back and forth and as big as it is someone would have seen it in the air. It's not crossing CPW on foot either.