It’s common for many people to forget about turkeys for most of the year until Thanksgiving comes around, but the fact is that wild and domesticated turkeys are among the most interesting birds on the ...

It's almost turkey day! This Thursday, you'll likely enjoy a cooked turkey alongside some other iconic Thanksgiving dishes, but what do you know about the bird itself? Skip the political talk at the ...

Turkeys live for three to four years in the wild. Adult males weigh 18 to 20 pounds. By the early 20th century, wild turkey populations had been decimated by market hunting, and by the 1930s, the bird ...

Turkeys are interesting wild birds that love to eat berries and bugs. If you want to learn more about them, you can get all ...

A new study finds that precipitation levels during nesting season are not related to reproductive success for wild turkeys, which runs counter to the conventional wisdom regarding the role that ...

A new study suggests eastern wild turkeys in five southern U.S. states are unlikely to make meaningful changes in the timing of when they begin nesting, even under significant future climate change.

On Thursday, as families and friends come together around a feast, millions of these households will have a turkey as their centerpiece. In many ways, Thanksgiving has become synonymous with turkeys.

Invasive plant species commonly have negative impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functions but may also provide suitable nesting habitat for wildlife. Imperata cylindrica (Cogongrass) is a ...

Turkeys For Tomorrow (TFT) is a nonprofit conservation group that was founded three years ago in Alabama to address the drastic reduction in wild turkey populations. Their stated mission is to reverse ...

Luther College senior biology major Avery Wrage swabs the inside of a turkey egg to collect samples for DNA analysis at Sampson Hoffland Laboratory at the college in Decorah on Thursday. The college ...