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The average life span of a wild turkey is only 3-5 years. The coyote population in the area was exploding. He explained that coyotes were very good at finding prey by using scent to locate it.

The wild turkey is one of America’s favorite game birds. Saved from precipitous decline in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, the birds now range across the entire Lower 48. While there are five ...

According to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, turkey populations peaked around the year 2001, with estimates around 275,000 wild turkeys in our state.

Cambridge, the roughly 6-square-mile city across the river from Boston, is home to about 120,000 people and between 40 and 50 wild turkeys, according to city animal control officer Christina Correia.

Then in the 1970s, 37 wild turkeys were placed by MassWildlife in the Berkshires. “Their population absolutely exploded,” said Pinney. “Now they’re everywhere.