Happy Thanksgiving #HokieNation 🦃 #Hokies #ThisIsHome Clip Just your friendly reminder to eat more ham 🙂‍↕️ Hope you have the best Thanksgiving break, Hokies! 🦃

Happy Thanksgiving, Hokie Nation! Every day I am thankful for @hokiescheer @hokieshightechs @hokiesports my ACC mascot besties Thanksgiving ham...

4,960 likes, 31 comments - thehokiebird on November 23, 2023: "Happy Thanksgiving, Hokie Nation!! 旅I have SO much to be thankful for every day, but here ..."

2024年11月22日 · 17K likes, 46 comments - thehokiebird on November 22, 2024: "Just your friendly reminder to eat more ham 🙂‍↕️ Hope you have the best Thanksgiving break, Hokies! 🦃".

Last year, when the National Thanksgiving Turkey and its alternate came to Blacksburg following the traditional White House ceremony, people around the globe were chatting online about the HokieBird’s newest fine-feathered friends, and thousands of people visited the birds at their new home, Gobbler’s Rest.

Dear #Hokies, Have a Happy Hokie Thanksgiving Love, HokieBird & Virginia Tech Athletics

Happy Thanksgiving, Hokie fam! We’re as thankful for you as The HokieBird is for these new feathered friends. 旅李 Tag your ~butter~ half that makes you this happy every day! 珞

2011年11月23日 · On a day that we all sit down and enjoy our Thanksgiving dinners, Virginia Tech fans chose to eat pork or ham instead! It's because our mascot is a cartoon character-like turkey. Happy Birthday HokieBird! What is the story behind the Virginia Tech mascot? Well, if you're really interested, here it is...excerpts were taken from VT magazine.

HokieBird has been so popular that the mascot landed an appearance on Animal Planet's "Turkey Secrets," shown annually around Thanksgiving. Now, when referring to Virginia Tech, the term "Hokie" generally refers to a Virginia Tech Student.

When looking at the history of Virginia Tech’s unique, much-beloved HokieBird, one has to wonder: Which came first, the turkey or the Gobbler? Where was the idea for Tech’s world-famous mascot hatched? And why a turkey? Just who is this international bird of mystery?