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Thank you. science quickly. I'm Kendra Pier Lewis, in for Rachel Kauffman. For millions of Americans, Thanksgiving is simply not Thanksgiving without Turkey.

The bird is native to North America. And yet, by the middle of last century, the most likely

place to find one was on the dinner table.

A combination of deforestation, agricultural expansion, and overhunting almost brought America's

favorite gobbler to the brink of extinction in the wild.

But these days, across the U.S., there are more than 6 million wild turkeys, Up from a low in the 1930s, that some observers estimated to be as few as roughly 30,000 birds.

Here to tell us more about the species conservation success story is Michael Chamberlain, National

Wild Turkey Federation Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia.

Thanks for taking the time to chat with me today, Michael.

Glad to talk to you.

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