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Wild turkeys make Long Island comeback; hunters cheer
For decades, the closest most Long Islanders got to a wild turkey was likely a shot glass of the bird's namesake Kentucky bourbon.
No more. Thanks to state efforts to reintroduce them after more than a century of absence, an estimated 3,000 wild turkeys now strut, gobble and preen from farm fields on the East End to suburban cul-de-sacs near Nassau's Muttontown Preserve.
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