How Turkey Made Its Way Onto the Holiday Menu Quoted from Slate.com, Written By Michelle Tsai On Thanksgiving, most of us will sit down to feast on a turkey dinner. The bird also shows up on the table at Christmas. How did we end up with the tradition of eating turkeys during the holidays? They
thebirdsofamerica: Plate 56 of The Birds of America by John Audubon, the Loggerhead Shrike, aka the Butcher Bird. Yes, they’re songbirds, but nobody ever bothered to tell them they’re not birds of prey. They kill insects and even larger prey (mouse pictured by Audubon) and leave them impaled on thorns, cacti, barbed wire fences, or anything sharp.
