Wild turkeys are one of America’s most iconic animals and the mascot of Thanksgiving. While farm-raised birds are abundant, wild ones are in a more delicate position. The Washington Post reported that ...

Harvest reports from the 2025 spring turkey seasons are rolling in, and in many states, like Ohio, the numbers are still behind long-term averages. Although the Ohio Wildlife Council has already ...

The Game Commission is collecting turkey sighting reports through March 15 to support its statewide population monitoring and ...

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.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission is asking residents to report sightings of wild turkey flocks through March 15 for ongoing research and population monitoring.

Oklahoma’s turkey population is declining and the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation is making drastic changes to the state’s turkey seasons to help turn that around. The National Wild ...

Most Americans will not eat wild turkey for Thanksgiving. But climate change is a fair topic for conversation at the table. “It’s a big gap,” Tim Lyons, a scientist with Minnesota’s Department of ...

Mary Jo Casalena talked turkey to about 75 members of the Lancaster County Bird Club at the Farm and Home Center earlier this month. Casalena is the wild turkey biologist for Pennsylvania Game ...

Thanksgiving is months away, but Pennsylvanians currently are talkin’ turkey – that is, discussing the decline in the wild turkey population and figuring out how to reverse the trend. The state Game ...

The population of wild turkeys, like the one pictured here, is declining across the country and West Virginia University researcher Chris Rota is working to find out why. (Photo Provided) MORGANTOWN — ...