If you care about endangered animals in Oklahoma, you're probably willing to talk turkey. Wild turkey. Only they're not endangered — not any more at least. They exist in all 77 counties of the ...

Wild turkeys were a 20th-century conservation triumph. After the birds dwindled or vanished across much of their ancestral range, decades of work helped re-establish healthy populations.

The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation is midway through its $2 million four-year study on wild turkeys in the state. Researchers said there is a decline in turkey populations.

Wild turkey populations have declined in the past several years in Oklahoma, especially in western parts of the state that have had an extreme drought. In Arkansas, the number of young turkeys born ...

Wild turkeys were a 20th-century conservation triumph. ... Nicolle De Filippo and Cyrena Bedoian, were working with Chitwood on a study of turkeys in Oklahoma’s forested southeast.

Wild turkeys were a 20th-century conservation triumph. ... Nicolle De Filippo and Cyrena Bedoian, were working with Chitwood on a study of turkeys in Oklahoma’s forested southeast.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Predators and severe weather have contributed to a decline in the state’s wild turkey population, a Senate panel was told Monday. The Senate Tourism and Wildlife Committee ...

In Kansas and Oklahoma, two of the states with the largest declines, turkey populations have decreased by 60% since 2007 and 51% between 2014 and 2019, respectively.

This approach makes sense, as gobblers are more focused on strutting their stuff than securing a meal this time of year. But turkeys have to eat, too, and paying attention to what wild turkeys eat can ...