The Iowa Department of Natural Resources announced Friday it has seen a “sharp jump” in cases of the highly pathogenic avian ...

After near-extinction, the feathery birds have rebounded in a big way. Now, they're overrunning this city and others.

Forester Nick Smith first spotted the rare Eastern turkey in 2021. Four seasons later, he finally tagged it on a fall hunt.

When traffic suddenly stops on a busy stretch of Clements Bridge Road in Deptford, honking motorists may find an unusual culprit: Tom, a wild turkey, who has become a beloved fixture in the South ...

"Turkeys will adjust their behavior and could become harder to detect and harder to harvest," researcher Nickolas Gulotta ...

Now the Florida subspecies of wild turkey is thought to range from 80,000 to 100,000 turkeys, but the state lacks precise, up-to-date data on the bird's numbers. "The lack of abundance data on ...

In the fall, the birds are often in plain view, in large flocks, presenting less of a challenge. Tim Gribbons, an officer with the Central Massachusetts chapter of the National Wild Turkey ...

Researchers and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department have spent decades trying to bolster the number of wild turkeys in ...

Some have found joy in the birds’ absurdity. Caroline Burns, 56, said she was in awe the first time she saw a wild turkey in her Brookline neighborhood roughly 15 years ago. It was the dead of ...

As many wild populations decline, some city dwellers flourish—and may become a source for reintroductions to rural areas ...

But in some parts of the nation it’s increasingly difficult to find the big bird in nature — including in Georgia, where the wild turkey is the second most popular animal to hunt behind deer.