Most of us, if we’re lucky, get to see a wild turkey or two in the spring. But Tom Gayvert and his family have lived with a flock for about 10 to 15 years. “They seem to come and go ...

The best turkey hunting in Region 5 is in Klickitat County, and the center of the action is the Klickitat River Canyon, although birds can be found from the Wind River area all the way to Goldendale.

We didn’t have long to wait. The foremost turkey stepped into the open, lifting each foot slowly and placing it on the ground gently, as if he figured every enemy was equipped with airplane-detector ...

I just knew it. Not so. Jeff Reiter was aware of the existence of the turkey flock at Cantigny, and he knew that it had disappeared, but he did not know why, at least not without certainty.

“We have a commercial turkey flock of about 20,000 birds that was diagnosed with HPAI,” confirmed Denise Derrer Spears with the Indiana State Board of Animal Health.

Iowa’s fourth detection of H5N1 HPAI within domestic birds in 2025 occurred in February after a case found on a turkey farm.

The most recent case was in a commercial turkey flock in Sac County. This is Iowa’s seventh detection of H5N1 HPAI within poultry in 2024 but the fourth case in less than a week.

DES MOINES — The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship announced Thursday avian influenza had been detected in a commercial turkey flock of more than 26,000 in Buena Vista County.