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Cover of When I Was a Turkey: Based on the Emmy Award- Winning PBS Documentary My Life as a Turkey

When I Was a Turkey: Based on the Emmy Award- Winning PBS Documentary My Life as a Turkey

Joe Hutto, with Brenda Z. Guiberson

Naturalist Joe Hutto receives a bowl of wild turkey eggs from a local farmer and hatches them. Using imprinting, he raises the flock and spends two years caring for, observing, bonding with, and communicating with the birds. This account of his experience includes pencil drawings and photographs, tracing an unusually close relationship between a naturalist and the wild turkeys in his care.

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Themes
Animals · Nature · Wildlife
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Published
November 7, 2017
ISBN-13
9781627793858
Language
English
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