{"id":339262,"date":"2026-05-30T17:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T17:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/339262\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T17:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T17:17:09","slug":"alameda-police-issue-warning-after-multiple-wild-turkey-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/339262\/","title":{"rendered":"Alameda police issue warning after multiple wild turkey attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police in Alameda<\/a> are warning residents and visitors to take precautions\u00a0due to an \u201caggressive\u201d animal in the area: the wild turkey.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement said animal control officers have responded to two incidents in recent days as the large birds are in their breeding and nesting season<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last week, an 83-year-old Alameda woman was injured when two of the turkeys attacked her from behind, according to KGO-TV<\/a>. She ended up going to the emergency room for a CT scan and treatment, including six stitches. In addition to the injured woman, a dog was also reportedly the subject of another attack.<\/p>\n

The Alameda Police Department said in a\u00a0Facebook<\/a> post Thursday that the hostile behavior \u201cis often associated with male turkeys competing for dominance or while protecting their offspring.\u201d<\/p>\n

The wild turkeys are not native to California but have become an increasingly visible presence after the California Department of Fish and Wildlife helped start a wild population from farmed turkeys in 1959<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The birds can particularly be a menace when passing a shiny vehicle as males may mistake their own reflection as a rival and attack. And the feathered creatures are not exactly tiny, with males measuring up to 4 feet tall<\/a> and weighing as much as 25 pounds.<\/p>\n

Tension between human and feathered residents isn\u2019t new in Alameda, with residents reporting<\/a> the wild turkeys block intersections and peck at cars on the roadway. Last December, an Alameda man was charged<\/a> with felony animal cruelty after shooting and killing one.<\/p>\n

After the attacks this week, Alameda police encourage residents to give the birds plenty of space and never feed them.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is important to remember they are still wild animals,\u201d police said in the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Alameda are warning residents and visitors to take precautions\u00a0due to an \u201caggressive\u201d animal in the area:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,1692],"class_list":["post-339262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-sfgnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}