The Texas Parks and Wildlife Division officials ... probably the most fun birds to hunt,” said Jason Hardin, TPWD wild turkey ...

Dale Bounds of Lufkin has a special story about fighting through a shoulder injury in search of a trophy turkey.

There are five subspecies of wild turkeys across North America. Texas provides habitats for three species: Merriam’s, Rio Grande and Eastern. The Merriam’s turkey is the least common ...

At the edge of the Rio Grande wild turkey range in Texas, this landscape historically has lower numbers of wild turkeys, resulting in a spring-only seasons. Hunters are allowed a one-gobbler bag ...

Albinism means there is no pigment at all. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department wild turkey program leader Jason Hardin has seen photographs of Barrett’s gobbler. He agreed the bird is extremely ...

“We get a lot of problem birds,” said Jason Hardin, the wild turkey program leader for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. “Birds that upset other people. But once we put them on the ...

The Rio Grande subspecies was established in 1975 with turkeys from northern California, then Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas ... according to the 2018 Oregon Wild Turkey Management Plan.

A wild turkey’s wide-ranging diet is part of why the birds can ... Rios are native to the semi-arid southern Great Plains states, including Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and Texas. They depend heavily ...