When scouting for spring turkeys, hunters tend to concentrate their efforts on roosting areas, clearings, and travel routes between the two areas. This approach makes sense, as gobblers are more ...

In the early 1900s, the situation for wild turkeys was dire. “Turkeys were eradicated from 18 of the 36 states that they had previously been found in,” Taylor Finger, game bird ecologist for the ...

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources says it needs the public's help tracking turkeys across the state this summer. Now through Aug. 31, the DNR is conducting its annual wild turkey brood ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Ask average Americans what they know about the feeding of a turkey and the sum of collective knowledge will be this: Turkeys are properly cooked and ready to eat when the ...

“Gus,” the turkey, has been spending Thanksgiving week much differently than millions of other unlucky gobblers across the U.S. As he trots in a sprawling animal sanctuary on the Colorado plains, he ...

Wild turkeys have one of America’s greatest wildlife comeback stories. Overhunting and habitat loss once pushed these birds to the edge of extinction. But thanks to ongoing conservation efforts, these ...

At three sites where turkeys are hunted, it appeared that females were more likely to give birth to other females.

The wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is a game bird native to North America. It belongs to the order Galliformes, which also includes other ground-feeding birds like chickens, peacocks, pheasants, ...

Back in my day, we didn’t answer the question, “What do turkeys eat?” by searching it up on Google. We’d go for a walk in the woods—where there was no internet at all—and scout for turkeys by studying ...