By Mike Sullivan, WBZ-TV
WOBURN – It is a turkey takeover for one Woburn neighborhood. The pesky birds are pecking at automobiles, tires, and youngsters.
“Essentially the most aggressive one is Kevin,” says Meaghan Tolson, a neighbor who has named the aggressive birds. “Then there are three girls as a result of their coloring is not so distinct. It is Esther, Gladys and Patricia. Even in case you are parked, Kevin will attempt to get in your automobile.”
The assaults are occurring close to Nashua and Tremont streets. Each neighbor has a narrative, and most have hilarious, but terrifying, movies of the incidents. Tolson has nearly a dozen movies.
“It’s a must to open your passenger facet door and lure them over there, then make a clear break to the home,” laughs Tolson.
The turkeys maintain individuals hostage by stocking them of their houses or automobiles. Every resident has a distinct manner of escaping.
“They at all times go towards [my neighbor’s] automobile, so she is going to refuse to depart her home if they’re going towards her automobile,” tells April Drolette, one other neighbor. “There have been instances I am trapped in my automobile, cannot get out, and need to name relations. They often carry an umbrella. It takes a workforce.”
Mass Wildlife says this sort of aggression takes time and comes when individuals feed the animals or have chicken feeders. The longer the birds get accustomed to people, the extra they see individuals as a part of their flock or rafter. The pecking and chasing are them asserting dominance over individuals, or from seeing their very own reflection in a automobile door.
“Turkey habits begins to kick in the place they change into so habituated with people who they don’t seem to be actually seeing that distinction,” particulars David Scarpitti with Mass Wildlife. “It is all about how they reply to the turkeys. For those who flip and run away, now you might be subdominant. He simply received that battle.”
Mass Wildlife urges individuals to not feed wild animals. For those who do encounter one in every of these aggressive turkeys, Scarpitti suggests you retain them in entrance of you, and open an umbrella of their course. It would scare them off and shield you.Â
