Remember when mom, or whoever cooked your Thanksgiving turkey, worried that the 24-pounder might not feed the army of relatives coming to feast?
“I got the biggest turkey they had,” she’d say.
While those were domesticated, it leaves one wondering, with all the turkeys getting their gooses cooked this week, about the heaviest bird ever killed.
Karen Cavender knows. As record coordinator the National Wild Turkey Federation, Cavendar is privy to spurs and beards, and records in the various species.
With 17,000 birds registered with the NWTF, she might not have them all off the top of her head, but she’s well-versed...