On Thursday, as families and friends come together around a feast, millions of these households will have a turkey as their centerpiece. In many ways, Thanksgiving has become synonymous with turkeys.

You’re at the park wearing a heavy winter coat, a beanie, gloves, a scarf, and warm boots—and you’re still numb and shivering from the cold. Then you notice a robin hopping from branch to branch.

Derek Kelly, who has died aged 95, led the revival in the 1980s of the traditional bronze-feathered turkey; his prize-winning ...

As families and friends came together around a feast on Thursday, millions of these households had a turkey as their centerpiece. In many ways, Thanksgiving has become synonymous with turkeys. And so, ...