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 ...

As the days get shorter and temperatures start to drop, Long Islanders are observing another sign of fall: flocks of turkeys traveling together from woodland to lawn to the edges of fallow fields, ...

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. -- Ask average Americans what they know about the feeding of a turkey and the sum of knowledge is this: Turkeys are ready to eat when the plastic thermometer pops out. When it comes ...

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 ...

Each year in winter, New Hampshire Fish and Game asks the public to provide information on turkey flocks in New Hampshire. Bird feeders are one of the main sources of food for turkeys in the winter, ...

When European settlers first came to New England, wild turkeys were everywhere. The reason that we still eat turkeys every Thanksgiving is to honor the tradition of turkey hunting that served the ...

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 ...