DAVIS, CA (KTRK) -- Thanksgiving is fast approaching, but there's one town where turkeys aren't welcome.
As a spate of recent 911 calls reveals, the ballooning wild turkey population in Davis, California is causing headaches of all sorts for residents, KTXL-TV reports.
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"This is a little embarrassing. I am trying to get into my office on G Street and I have this huge turkey surrounding my car, circling me, and I don't know what to do," laments one caller.
"There's a turkey between 4th and F and then 5th and F that's running around chasing after people," says another caller.
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Authorities estimate that as many as 100 wild turkeys are roaming the streets of the northern California town. Dozens are known to regularly congregate in a city cemetery.
City council members recently approved a turkey management plan that will work to keep the burgeoning bird colony under control.