From odd gobbles to unexpected tree-climbing skills, turkeys are stranger than you think. Here’s why they might just take the crown for the quirkiest creature in the U.S.

Today, turkeys number nearly 7 million in the wild. Commonly called forest turkeys, the eastern wild turkey bird is one of the most abundant subspecies and is found in swamps and forests.

The last native turkey in Massachusetts was killed in 1851, and none were found in the state for more than a century. That was until the early 1970s, when, after years of unsuccessful attempts to ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Ask just about anybody in Harvard Square about the wild turkeys infiltrating their community and they’ll have a story to tell. They’ll likely have a few. Cambridge, the roughly ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission's annual turkey sighting survey begins July 1 and continues through the end of August.

My Buddy Took Me Turkey Hunting, Then Shot My Bird Out from Under Me. During the golden age of turkey hunting, I headed South to hunt turkeys with a new acquaintance. He wasn't all that impressed with ...

Turkey producers talk about the benefits they've seen from adding lasers to their arsenal for warding off migratory birds.

Turkeys, for instance, were lost to Ohio for generations of hunters. This generation's hunters will be able to take birds in 83 of Ohio's 88 counties until May 18, the last day of the spring ...

Hunters registered 50,071 turkeys in the 2025 Wisconsin spring turkey hunting season, about equal to the previous year and ...