Mandy Murski harvested this Ocellated turkey in the Yucatan jungle. It s one of six turkey species required to earn a World Slam of wild turkeys as recognized by the National Wild Turkey ...

Paul Schmitz of Coral Springs, Fla. holds his first wild turkey gobbler, which had a 10-inch beard and 1 3/8ths-inch spurs. He shot the bird while hunting near Immokalee. (Steve Waters/Sun ...

Food & Drink Wild Turkey Forget cranberries and pumkpin pie. Hot young chef Grady Spears has created the ultimate thanksgiving feast, starring a bird that’s deep-fried in the heart of texas.

Currently, wild turkey populations are thought to be thriving in Texas, with an estimated 500,000 Rio Grande turkeys, 16,000 eastern turkeys, and a few hundred Merriam’s turkeys.

Texas' efforts to re-establish eastern wild turkey using wild-trapped birds began in the late 1970s with sporadic stockings of handfuls of birds, then greatly accelerated in 1990s.