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Today, turkeys number nearly 7 million in the wild. Commonly called forest turkeys, the eastern wild turkey bird is one of the most abundant subspecies and is found in swamps and forests.

Of the 5 different subspecies, the Eastern wild turkey has the largest geographical footprint, and it's the bird that most hunters east of the Mississippi River are after when they hit the ...

The eastern subspecies of turkey prefer higher rainfall, according to an article in Texas A&M University’s AgriLife Today, and they are believed to do better in East Texas.

The eastern wild turkey is the most abundant turkey and has the widest distribution east of the Mississippi River. It can be found in 38 states. It’s a New York resident.

European settlers wiped out Michigan's native wild turkey population by 1900. But now the birds are back and thriving in every Michigan county.

In a Popular Science magazine article in 2017, the PGC turkey biologist admitted that the agency had no idea that the eastern wild turkey population was dramatically decreasing in Penn’s Woods.

The last native turkey in Massachusetts was killed in 1851, and none were found in the state for more than a century. That was until the early 1970s, when, after years of unsuccessful attempts to ...

For the next five decades, the wild turkey population grew and expanded rapidly, facilitated by trap-and-transfer efforts. By 1999, wild turkeys were found in all 88 counties.