A new study finds that precipitation levels during nesting season are not related to reproductive success for wild turkeys, which runs counter to the conventional wisdom regarding the role that ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Nest success is a primary component of productivity for wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo; turkeys) and there is concern that turkey ...

Mama wasn’t happy and she was letting me know it. I was on a late spring hike near Julian and had strayed too close to a well-hidden wild turkey nest. As the poults scattered, the protective adult ...

Luther College senior biology major Avery Wrage swabs the inside of a turkey egg to collect samples for DNA analysis at Sampson Hoffland Laboratory at the college in Decorah on Thursday. The college ...

Invasive plant species commonly have negative impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functions but may also provide suitable nesting habitat for wildlife. Imperata cylindrica (Cogongrass) is a ...

EDGEFIELD — As part of its 2023 investment in wild turkey research, the NWTF is helping fund a unique project out of the University of Tennessee examining potential factors that may be causing wild ...

Wild turkeys were reintroduced to Connecticut in the 1970s as game birds. Now, the state’s flock stands at around 35,000.

Despite efforts targeted to protect it, Oklahoma's wild turkey population is declining from a peak about a decade ago and has dropped sharply just in the last six years, a group of wildlife experts ...

A fawn in Florida returns to a prescribed burn the day after the fire. Photo by Josh O'Connor / USFWS It happens every year. After Lindsay Thomas Jr. burned four acres of his carefully-managed hunting ...