In Montana, nearly all the wild turkeys are of the Merriam's subspecies, which was named in 1900 to honor one of the original founders of the National Geographic Society and first chief of the U.S ...

Montana was void of wild turkeys until 1954, when then-Montana Department of Fish and Game released 13 Merriam’s turkeys from Colorado into the Judith Mountains of central Montana.

Wild turkey numbers have grown in portions of Eastern Montana prompting Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks to propose specific fall hunting tags for the big birds. The proposal, open to comment ...

Ashtabula County is full of turkeys. No, not the theatrical flops. Or the bowling feats. Or even foolish folks. The wild kind that go gobble gobble. For the fourth year in a row, Ohio hunters ...

Kevin Donley, 62, of Pleasant Ridge, has hunted wild turkeys for about 20 years. "It's a really fascinating sport because you get to talk to the animals, similar to duck hunting," he said.

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. While there are five ...

Wild turkeys in Michigan have every right to strut. Their native populations wiped out in Michigan by European settlers by 1900, decades of restoration efforts starting in the 1950s have restored ...

The population of wild turkeys, which are native to New York, has rebounded on Long Island in recent years. The species disappeared from the area by the mid-1800s because of overhunting and ...

Wild turkeys generally feed on seeds, nuts, insects and berries. They also love food left out by people — intentionally or by accident — such as bird seed, pet food, chicken feed and table scraps.

Stock image of wild turkey (main) and a Thanksgiving turkey (inset). Turkeys may become harder to harvest over time due to their risk-taking behavior.

Turkeys now populate every state in the U.S. except Alaska. In New York City, a wild turkey called Astoria made headlines earlier this year for taking up residence in a Park Avenue tree and window ...