After 1,826 restaurant inspections across Central Florida in May, only 236 had no issues for the entire month, according to ...

It’s been one of those weeks that I’ve stuck pretty close to home and caught up on some past due writing, mostly on an article I’m working on pertaining to predation by raccoons. I’ve spent a couple ...

Steve Bannon, architect of US president Donald Trump’s America First movement, spoke to Edward Luce, US national editor, at the FTWeekend festival in Washington DC. The populist nationalist shared his ...

a Rio Grande in Texas, an Osceola in Florida and a Merriam’s in South Dakota to complete the Grand Slam of all four subspecies of the wild turkey. He went on to be a member of the pro-staff of ...

wild turkey; the Rio Grande wild turkey; Merriam’s wild turkey; and Gould’s wild turkey. Most of the common names associated with each subspecies indicates their range. The Osceola wild turkey ...

Native to this continent, wild turkeys are found throughout all states except Alaska. In the 1960s, the subspecies Rio Grande turkey from Texas was translocated to the Hawaiian Islands and released.

Michigan began transplanting wild turkeys from Pennsylvania in the ... Eastern (which we have in Michigan), Osceola (Florida), Rio Grande (down Texas-way) and Merriam’s (out west).

The Merriam's wild turkey is a true mountain bird ... with mature toms sometimes weighing as much as 30 pounds. The Rio Grande turkey lives west of the Mississippi with high concentrations ...

So, why do turkeys have snoods? Let’s break down the science behind one of the wild turkey’s fanciest features. A strutting Rio Grande gobbler. Its lengthy snood is likely a sign of good genetics.

Texas has an estimated Rio Grande turkey population of about 590,000 ... Texas Parks and Wildlife Department wild turkey program leader. “The numbers are trending up currently based on two ...