Rowdy rafter of turkeys wreak havoc at Nasa’s Silicon Valley campus

Wild turkeys have been causing trouble at Nasa’s Ames Center in Mountain View, California, pecking at cars, blocking traffic and leaving droppings everywhere. Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters

A rafter of rowdy turkeys have run afoul of researchers at Nasa’s Ames Center in Mountain View, California.

Nearly two dozen birds have been creating chaos at the Bay Area space agency outpost, pecking at cars, blocking traffic, disrupting flights at the nearby Moffett federal airfield, and blanketing most everything with their droppings. They have become such a nuisance that officials from the US Department of Agriculture have been called in to trap and relocate them – before they begin nesting and hatch a new generation of pillaging poults.