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 ...

"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.

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 ...

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 ...

Try it in: Turkey nuggets, stand-alone dinner, cut up for turkey salad. Just like a deer or cow will have a tenderloin, so do birds, and a wild turkey is no exception.

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 ...