Back in 1989 I went back to Calif. to help my mother, this is in northen Calif. ( Clear Lake also where Vacuum Tube Valley is ) and there was a flock of turkeys that hung out in the walnut orchard behind the house. I would kid her by saying they sure look tasty. And would you know it, come Think giving or should I say a few days after the flock turns up two turkeys short . Boy did I get the eye, I told her it was a Butter Ball 
My neighborhood has a lot of wildlife wandering around. Loads of deer, a few coyotes, wild turkeys, skunks, groundhogs, and vast numbers of squirrels, rabbits, and chipmunks. Birds galore, including some raptors.
One of the problems is that farmers don't like wildlife. They only want the animals they raise for food. So, around a hundred years ago, all the farmers got together and formed a line that swept through the area, killing anything that moved.
Some animals survived, but it was mostly the smallest of them, and the ones that hid the best. (Like chipmunks.)
Wildlife has been returning slowly, but it's mostly prey and not predators.
There's a local National Park that harbors lots of prey animals, including deer. There are so many deer that they have to feed them during the winter or they'd starve.
I'd estimate that about a fifth of the deer I see are wounded in one way or another. I'm betting it's because cars and deer don't mix. (I've hit two deer so far, and it's totalled two cars. I'm just lucky that I didn't get hurt.)
