We had a local flock/gaggle/run/rafter/etc. that used to cross the road regularly. One of the hens acted as crossing guard - stopped cars and would not let the rest of her group cross until cars stopped in both directions. At one time I must have seen 20 birds cross. Turkeys are VERY smart. I haven't seen them lately. I suspect coyotes...
Yeah, we've got a lot of coyotes (and foxes and bobcats and...) in the area. But LOADS of turkeys.
I remember the first time seeing turkeys crossing the Sawmill, and goggling at them... and then needing to chill, because it was going to be slow going if I craned my neck every time I saw a turkey.
I just ran the 1999-2020 WONDER database on rabies (A82 in ICD-10), and for the entire period, there were 35 deaths, not enough to reach 10 deaths for any one year. For 2018-2026 (provisional/partial), there have been 12 total rabies deaths.
There are ways to get the deaths data when it's fewer than 10 deaths for a year... but there's nothing really to analyze.
We had a local flock/gaggle/run/rafter/etc. that used to cross the road regularly. One of the hens acted as crossing guard - stopped cars and would not let the rest of her group cross until cars stopped in both directions. At one time I must have seen 20 birds cross. Turkeys are VERY smart. I haven't seen them lately. I suspect coyotes...
Yeah, we've got a lot of coyotes (and foxes and bobcats and...) in the area. But LOADS of turkeys.
I remember the first time seeing turkeys crossing the Sawmill, and goggling at them... and then needing to chill, because it was going to be slow going if I craned my neck every time I saw a turkey.
I've seen a couple of headlines about rabies deaths this year. Is that a common enough cause to have meaningful statistics?
I just ran the 1999-2020 WONDER database on rabies (A82 in ICD-10), and for the entire period, there were 35 deaths, not enough to reach 10 deaths for any one year. For 2018-2026 (provisional/partial), there have been 12 total rabies deaths.
There are ways to get the deaths data when it's fewer than 10 deaths for a year... but there's nothing really to analyze.