Wild turkeys were abundant across the U.S. until the mid-1800s, when the clearing of forestland and unregulated hunting led ...

In Lyons, the wild turkeys that roam around town have become local celebrities. Flocks of the birds have been spotted ...

Churchwell said it’s important for people not to feed them as well, so they can stay wild animals. He said if you notice ...

Along with a keen sense of hearing, a turkeys' eyeballs are what really give them an edge over hunters and other natural predators. Wild turkeys have incredible eyesight. Their ability to sense a ...

Bob Perry gets a kick out of the flock of wild turkeys that lives on city land along Stony Point Road. ''They're kind of entertaining,'' said Perry, a Santa Rosa city parks worker who looks forward to ...

Move over, pigeons! Wild turkeys are strutting their stuff as another symbolic Big Apple bird. Even as thousands of New ...

Wild turkeys have made a great comeback in Rhode Island. They're frequently spotted pecking for food in front yards, holding up traffic as they cross streets, or even staking out drive-throughs for ...

It’s mid-April when toms and jakes strut, puff out their feathers, fan their tails and let loose with their glorious valley-filling, heart-stopping gobble to attract hens. Hunters scout their land and ...

Spring turkey seasons are underway in some states and right around the corner in most others. Where I live, in western Montana, the gobblers are flocked up in groups of 10 or more, and they’re ...

Turkey hunters judge a tom’s beard length, spurs, and body weight the way deer hunters pay attention to antler points and body size. And just as a deer’s antlers don’t correlate with his age, the same ...

Norman Rockwell’s 1943 oil painting, Freedom from Want, features a tableau of personalities around a dinner table. Their ...