The park's resident pelicans have taken to varying their diet by gobbling up other wild fowl on the lake.

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Jacques Legros and Lise Marcotte raise ducks, geese, guinea fowl, pheasants and wild turkeys, and keep a colourful garden of organic grains and vegetables.

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That means that individual birds can be assigned to breeds, and individual breeds to a family tree that may, in time, stretch back to the domestic chicken's wild ancestor, the Burmese jungle fowl.

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So we know they had venison, and they likely had some kind of water fowl goose, duck, swan or eagle. (Best not to think about those last two.) The fowl also could have been wild turkey, but if so, it was a very distant relative of that bird in the supermarket case today.

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