So, just rare is a snow-white wild turkey? Hardin said there are no rock solid numbers to hang a hat on. “They are not unheard of, but they aren’t very common at all,” Hardin said.

Scientists Aim to Find Out 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.

Turkeys For Tomorrow is a conservation group that was founded three years ago in Alabama to address the drastic reduction in wild turkey populations across the Southeast.

She points to reliable brooding success and harvest data in Smith’s neck of the woods, and says this is why Vermont regulations allow hunters to harvest one turkey of either sex each fall. This 2022 ...