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

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

After a few years of lower than average hatches, data from a citizen science survey indicate wild turkey numbers are on the ...

Although the barnyard variety is a rather stupid creature (leading to the insulting tone of the term 'turkey'), the original wild form is a wary and magnificent bird. Wild Turkeys usually get around ...

SAC COUNTY Iowa (KTIV) - A new case of bird flu has been detected in a commercial turkey flock in Northwest Iowa. 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 ...

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

That, in turn, brings some wild birds to Thanksgiving dinner tables — though the flavor is different and might require smoking the turkey. "We now have wild turkeys in every county in the state ...

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 recent years, the wild turkey population explosion in Massachusetts has sparked numerous complaints about aggressive birds. We’ve all heard stories of turkeys attacking their own reflections ...

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 ...

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