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After essentially going extinct regionally in the early 1990s, wild turkeys are gobbling up the local limelight again. Due to habitat loss and excessive hunting, turkeys were extirpated, or made regionally extinct, in Virginia by the early 1900s, explains local biologist Merri Collins. In the mid-1990s, scientists began importing one species, Eastern Wild Turkeys, from ....

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