A flash of motion caught my attention. It was a hawk that was making swift strafing runs at the turkey brood. What would the mother hen do?

Harvest reports from the 2025 spring turkey seasons are rolling in, and in many states, like Ohio, the numbers are still behind long-term averages. Although the Ohio Wildlife Council has already ...

A stock photo shows a turkey hen. They usually only live between 1 and 3 years old. Karel Bock/Getty Images. Ten years later in February 2022, researchers captured the hen again during a project ...

At about 7:15 on Monday morning I settled in to a comfy spot about 20 yards from the edge of the woods. My intent was to experience the migration by sight and sound from a single spot. It was chilly, ...

Submitted photo James King, of Mattydale, poses with his 20 -pound gobbler he shot May 11 in the Chittenango area. He wrote: Dave, I got this bird by calling to his hen. After she came in he did ...

An unusual stimulus-and-response, true, but in fact a beaver dam exploded, so my daughter bagged a bearded wild turkey hen. Crammed in a blind with three squirmy kids behind the Roseville Baptist ...

Eventually, the hen turkey launched into flight and flew directly at the approaching hawk. I was convinced that it was her intention to capture, kill and eat that marauding hawk.