The Merriam's wild turkey is a true mountain bird. Named for the prolific taxonomist and zoologist C. Hart Merriam, these birds range from higher-elevation ponderosa pine forests in winter time to ...

The Rio Grande turkey can form flocks of several hundred birds during the winter There are five subspecies of wild turkeys in North America, including the Merriam’s and Rio Grande found in Colorado ...

In 2021, they drove to Wyoming and were able to get their Merriam birds. “I figured we would get the furthest one, way out west, out of the way,” he said. “We doubled up in Wyoming together ...

We investigated population growth rate (λ) for a Merriam's wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo merriami) population in the northern Black Hills, South Dakota, USA. We constructed and evaluated a ...

Regardless of the inception, turkeys are now sold in the millions each Thanksgiving, with both domestic and wild turkeys sitting central to the tradition. The National Wild Turkey Federation wrote in ...