Americans have always loved wild turkeys, perhaps too much. By 1900, we had nearly driven this close relative to the chicken to extinction as a result of unregulated hunting and habitat destruction.

Thu., July 17, 2025 Two turkey hens strut through Pat Munts’ garden looking for bugs and other tasty treats. Hidden nearby are a few chicks or poults that will come out when its safe. Munts’ turkeys ...

Wild turkeys are found in all of Ohio's counties, according to the Ohio Department Of Natural Resources. A survey of Ohio’s wild turkeys and ruffed grouses is underway. The Ohio Department of Natural ...

MyDNR, Indiana’s Outdoor Newsletter: Every May, wild turkey chicks (poults) begin to hatch in Indiana, and DNR needs your help counting turkey broods (hens with poults) and hens without poults. Brood ...

As the days get shorter and temperatures start to drop, Long Islanders are observing another sign of fall: flocks of turkeys traveling together from woodland to lawn to the edges of fallow fields, ...

Hunters, get ready. Wild turkey season in Ohio starts soon. Here's what you need to know. When is wild turkey hunting season 2025 in Ohio? Here's when the different wild turkey hunting seasons in Ohio ...

Mama wasn’t happy and she was letting me know it. I was on a late spring hike near Julian and had strayed too close to a well-hidden wild turkey nest. As the poults scattered, the protective adult ...

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources says it needs the public's help tracking turkeys across the state this summer. Now through Aug. 31, the DNR is conducting its annual wild turkey brood ...

Wild turkeys in Michigan have every right to strut. Their native populations wiped out in Michigan by European settlers by 1900, decades of restoration efforts starting in the 1950s have restored wild ...