Wild turkey found trotting near Philadelphia preschool day before Thanksgiving

it appears that we have a local wild turkey who received his own pardon just before Thanksgiving act Philly sharing video of the Stray bird wandering around a Child Care Center's playground in Philadelphia's roners neighborhood reporter Becca Hendrickson spoke with the experts about the bird's holiday travels there is suspected Foul Play Here officials have no idea how a wild turkey ended up at a preschool but it was right here trotting along next to the playground toys a whimpering gobble from a caged bird surrounded by picnic benches and Wheeling toys this turkey was nowhere near home for the holidays we did think it was a prank at first because the timing really is kind of weird it was a call around 300 p.m. to act Philly claiming there was a wild turkey not the bourbon the real deal at py Early Learning Center on straw Street in Ron Hurst how did a wild turkey end up in a fre School playground that is the question stuffing everyone's mind but this runaway turkey was no fast food it had a bit of a limp our guess is probably that no one intended to have this turkey as a pet but maybe they thought they would take him as Thanksgiving dinner and maybe they either realized he was wild and that wasn't a great idea in fact wild turkey would be a quirky meal not necessarily safe to eat and certainly not safe for young kids to be around wild turkeys could carry mites they could carry parasites um but again that's more a concern for if the children are are touching the turkey and then putting their hand in their mouth thankfully act Philly says no children interacted with the poultry and officers brought it to skookul Wildlife Center where it can Roost in peace you can't have like a wild turkey hanging out at your house as a pet that's not something you can just do um it'd be like having a wild skunk like it you just you can't have wild animals as pets act Philly says once the turkey is rehabilitated it will be released back into the wild pardoned for any Thanksgiving table in Ron Hurst I'm Becca Hendrickson for Action News at 10 on PHL 17