But turkeys have to eat, too, and paying attention to what wild turkeys eat can pay off. Understanding what wild turkeys eat—and why they eat certain foods at certain times of the year—is valuable ...

You have probably been irked by turkeys. Specifically, the wild ones that stroll around Cape Cod like they own the place. You'll be happily driving along a back road, only to be stopped short by a ...

I am pretty sure that very few people have seen wild turkeys up close and personal. A number of years ago, I hosted a weekly television show on CLTV, the sister station of WGN. I was getting ready ...

It made me morose to realize that it was just a cruel trick played by Mother Nature that made the wild turkeys of Cantigny disappear. Oh well, I guess I will just have to find another mystery to ...

Wild turkeys are a common sight along the sides of roads in the central and eastern United States. People often associate these large game birds with Thanksgiving, the pilgrims, and their ...

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 ...

Wild turkeys have incredible eyesight. Their ability to sense a predator, like a hunter leaning back against a tree, is uncanny. Turkey vision can seem even supernatural at times. But really, it’s ...

Instead, the bird is often characterized as unremarkable. Rekindling an appreciation for wild turkeys not only allows us to find enchantment in a common, local species, but also to recollect ...

His team has outfitted wild turkeys with small backpacks to track their movements. Separately, the researchers record and analyze 100,000 hours annually of turkey sounds, from gobbling to yelps ...

Some 46 million turkeys are carved up and eaten each Thanksgiving, the USDA estimates. In recent years, the wild turkey population explosion in Massachusetts has sparked numerous complaints about ...

While the Department of Environmental Conservation doesn't have a specific estimate for their numbers, Chip Hamilton, a DEC field biologist, said wild turkeys on Long Island are "stable to ...