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Chicago's wildlife
This place is a zoo
Photo: istockphoto.comWild turkey
Meleagris gallopavo
Description With its long, fan-shaped tail and featherless, reddish head, there’s little mistaking the wild turkey. “It kind of looks like a living dinosaur,” says Chris Whelan, an avian ecologist with the Illinois Natural History Survey.
Habitat Palos Heights, Thorn Creek Woods in Park Forest and in McHenry County near the Wisconsin border. Also: Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Wilmington (near Joliet). In spring, look for males fanning their tails in a quest for some hot turkey-on-turkey action.
Notes Unlike their domestic brethren, these wild beasts can fly (although they usually fly very close to the ground). They also run surprisingly fast. After nearly disappearing from Illinois and most of the Midwest because of overhunting, wild turkeys were reintroduced from Missouri starting in the 1960s and now can be found throughout the state. Helping them thrive are their large size and badass appearance, which deter predators.
Time Out Chicago / Issue 173 : Jun 19–25, 2008
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The nests you are seeing are not in Rosemont, they are off of 90 in Busse Woods near Arlington Heights, and they are mostly Great Blue Herons along with a few other species.
Bats aren't rodents.
This Place is a Zoo -- Big Brown Bat...Did your writer really think that bats are rodents? They are mammals and are closer related to humans genetically than they are to mice. I could see if there was a ha ha in the little write-up after it says flying rodents, but looks like he/she was serious. I think if Larry Heaney, who is quoted in the article, ever sees this he'll be pretty ashamed and upset to be associated with such a misconception.
I have often noticed a rookery of nests close to Rosemount, IL. Does anyone know if these are eagles or a type of heron?