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 ...

Tom Fenske / Adobe Stock Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Wild turkeys have some flashy headgear. The features of a turkey head are as funny sounding as they are funny ...

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 ...

The National Wild Turkey Federation wrote in a blog that turkeys were likely one of the first animals to be domesticated and raised for food in the Americas, with the Mayans domesticating turkeys ...