First there was a monkey hanging out at an Ikea store in North York, now a wild turkey is roaming around Scarborough.
The pheasant was cornered by a Toronto Wildlife Centre employee was in the back of a car dealership on Kingston and Mason roads.
The Toronto Sun reports a wild turkey caused traffic to slow as it crossed Kingston Road, west of McCowan Road, Friday afternoon.
Police say the bird has been spotted in the area over the last three weeks.
Animal services speculated that the turkey’s probably wandered down from north of the city, where they were re-introduced to the wild by the Ministry of Natural Resources several years ago.
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Are the provincial liberals out meeting people of Toronto again?
We had a family of them roaming our street in West Hill a couple months ago.
Wow. City folk just get shocked about anything. heaven forbid anything but a human being is near them. Go just a little bit north of the city and wild turkeys are everywhere!
This close to Christmas and this turkey doesn’t have the sense to hide! It’s gonna be dinner!
We saw the same female turkey twice on Dec 20/12 and Dec 21/12 at Markham and Kingston Road in Scarborough. She is very tame and let’s you go right up to her; however, she was definitely wild as she wouldn’t eat any of the bread we brought to lure her away from the traffic and up Markham Road towards the Bluffs (Sylvan Park), which feeds into the Rouge Valley watershed; however, the turkey later in the day to Kingston Road and appeared intent upon heading eastward along Kingston Road. Another neigfhbour reported the turkey had flown onto his aluminum roof but couldn’t get a foothold and fluttered to the ground with a large thud. We called both Toronto Animal Services and the Toronto Police on several occasions regarding the fact that this huge turkey weighed between 30-40 pounds and posed a serious hazard to drivers, who might hit her or cause an accident trying to avert hitting her as she just stands on the road oblivious to the dangers. Toronto Animal Services advised they would only intervene if the turkey was injured while Toronto Police advised they couldn’t get involved as the bird was a legally protected ‘wildlife species’. I therefore will be contacting the Ministry of Natural Resources to position more protection for both the wild turkeys and the public as have obviously travelled here by the Rouge/Highland creek watershed systems in search of food. What is the point of releasing these poor birds if people get killed in traffic accidents as these birds were obviously hand raised without fear of humans prior to their release.