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 ...

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 ...

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 ...