In Michigan, turkeys were common in the southern Lower Peninsula. However, with deforestation and market hunting, the population went from an estimated 94,000 before European settlement to zero in 1900.
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What a difference one vote makes.
In 1782, a congressional referendum on our national bird came down to a battle between the bald eagle and wild turkey.
The bald eagle won, barely, and the turkey has been relegated to our dinner tables. ...