The Texas Parks and Wildlife Division officials have one message for turkey hunters this season. Go early and go often.

Thanksgiving turkeys are abundant this time of year. But their wild brethren — the less plump variety strutting around the edge of forests — are less plentiful, especially in East Texas where ...

Their coloration is well suited to their habitat ... The Rio Grande turkey lives west of the Mississippi with high concentrations in central Texas, most of Oklahoma (outside the panhandle ...

Texas’ Hill Country region is the hotbed of spring turkey hunting with the most hunters and highest harvest each year. The region has good habitat for the birds from the egg throughout life.