{"id":167307,"date":"2026-03-18T15:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/167307\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T15:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:30:08","slug":"turkeys-on-the-tracks-delay-staten-island-trains-twice-in-2-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/167307\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkeys on the tracks delay Staten Island trains twice in 2 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 18 (UPI) — Wild turkeys interrupted train services on New York’s Staten Island twice within the space of under two hours.<\/p>\n

The first incident occurred around 2:30 p.m. Monday when turkeys were spotted on the tracks west of the Staten Island Railway’s Old Town station.\n<\/p>\n

Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokeswoman Joana Flores told the New York Daily News<\/a> that the birds eventually scattered after multiple blasts of a train horn.<\/p>\n

Turkeys were again spotted on the tracks, this time year St. George, about 4 p.m. Those turkeys also eventually scattered at the sound of a train horn.<\/p>\n

A wild turkey was previously photographed<\/a> blocking the path of an MTA bus in Staten Island in February.<\/p>\n

The borough’s wild turkeys are believed to be<\/a> descended from several pets that were released into the wild in 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 18 (UPI) — Wild turkeys interrupted train services on New York’s Staten Island twice within the space…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1457,35541,9,24,63,35540,134,136,135,1295],"class_list":["post-167307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-animals","tag-funny","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-odd","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}