A new art and nature video for kids from Wonderland Spectacle Co.:
When a family of wild turkeys visited our backyard in Greater Boston, we wondered how the birds came to live in the city. To find the answer, come along with us as we visit Jim Cardoza of MassWildlife, who led the effort to restore wild turkeys to Massachusetts in the 1970s after they had been gone for more than 100 years. We tell the history with puppets. Then we head back to the city to see a turkey that frequents a Somerville doughnut shop (and gets in disputes with police) and a family of turkeys roosting in a tall oak for the night.
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Learn more about wild turkeys from MassWildlife:
mass.gov/service-details/learn-about-turkeys
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Big thanks to
Jim Cardoza, Marion Larson and all our friends at MassWildlife (Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife) for their help, including sharing vintage photos included here of Massachusetts’ Wild Turkey Restoration Program.
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Friends of Fred (Rachel Leah Blumenthal, Sophia Cacciola, Joel Edinberg and Michael J. Epstein) for allowing us to include their song “Ode to the Somerville Turkey (Fred’s Song).”
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Wonderland Spectacle Co. produces videos and parades and festivals and all sorts of spectacles. Lead artists Kari Percival and Greg Cook hand-paint fabric banners, fashion masks out of poster board, craft puppets out of twigs and cardboard, paint murals, make fun videos, and inspire volunteers to join them in community spectacles big and tiny. And they teach others how to do these things too in their how-to workshops. Kari and Greg aim to speak up for those who have no voices and create parades that tell stories, question injustice, celebrate wonder, and advocate for all living things on earth.
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