Sometimes we learn about animals not from their direct presence, but from the signs they leave behind: scat, tracks in the snow and sometimes their dead remains - bones or fur or feathers. A friend ...

The eastern wild turkey is North America's most abundant and widely distributed turkey subspecies. It inhabits 38 states and a handful of Canadian provinces. Most eastern turkeys are found east of the ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Edited News Release) - The Missouri Department of Conservation asks Missouri turkey hunters to save and share feathers from birds they harvest this fall as part of a new research ...

Domestic turkeys were first raised by Native Americans in Mexico and Central America, who bred them into domestication from a subspecies of the North American wild turkey maybe as early as 25 A.D.

There are five subspecies of North American wild turkeys: Eastern, Osceola, Rio Grande, Merriam’s, and Gould’s. The wild turkey is the heaviest member of the Galliformes order. The male typically ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — Ranger Chris Cagle, a lanky six-year veteran of the national park police force, was just following orders when, armed with his Remington 870 pump shotgun, he ventured into the ...