With the region’s wild turkey population booming, wildlife officials are again asking residents to report sightings as the state monitors the population and estimates the fall harvest potential ...

The wild turkey’s continuing success story in Berkshire County may partly hinge on the behavior of humans to keep the state’s official game bird, well, wild. Habitat loss caused the downfall of the ...

Officers shared pictures of the wild turkey in hopes to prevent people from feeding it so it will not get hit by a car or cause an accident. The “best thing to do is scare him away from the area ...

APPLETON, Wis. (WFRV) – Officers in Appleton are asking residents to stop feeding wild turkeys after a recent increase in its population near the Memorial Park neighborhood is causing several ...

In a 2021 study, eight out of 30 states surveyed reported that turkey populations declined from 2014 to 2019, with some of the sharpest decreases in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana and Oklahoma.

Despite all that, Salem has a love affair with its turkeys. Wild turkeys are not native to Oregon. Early attempts to ...

The wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is a game bird native to North America. It belongs to the order Galliformes, which also includes other ground-feeding birds like chickens, peacocks, pheasants ...

APPLETON — The Fox Valley has a turkey problem, and the Appleton Police Department is asking residents to not contribute to it. In recent years, wild turkeys have appeared in neighborhoods ...

"Basically, we're studying the wild turkey's role in agricultural damage," explains Chris Greene, a 29-year-old graduate student at SIU's Cooperative Center for Wildlife Research.

The only turkey you should stuff is the one in your kitchen, not your yard. Do not feed wildlife, including wild turkeys, and haze them when appropriate to reduce the number of nuisance turkeys in ...