Wild turkeys in Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge have to use their strong flying skills to escape from bears, with ...

Most of a bird’s power production for flight occurs in the breast muscles. This mass of meat — pectoralis muscle for the powerful downstroke on top of the supracoracoideus muscle for the upstroke — is ...

It takes approximately 12-13 days to lay the full clutch of eggs and another 26-28 days of continuous incubation for them to ...

The Eastern wild turkey is considered to be one of Connecticut’s conservation success stories, as decades of restoration efforts have brought the bird back from a population of less than 1,000 to an ...

Wild turkeys have one of America’s greatest wildlife comeback stories. Overhunting and habitat loss once pushed these birds to the edge of extinction. But thanks to ongoing conservation efforts, these ...

Wild turkeys have made a great comeback in Rhode Island. They're frequently spotted pecking for food in front yards, holding up traffic as they cross streets, or even staking out drive-throughs for ...

They're everywhere in Sacramento this time of year; strutting across streets and holding up traffic around Arden, destroying gardens in Orangevale and leaving droppings on Fair Oaks sidewalks. Wild ...

For roughly 100 years, there were no wild turkeys in New Hampshire. Though they were once native to the state, New Hampshire’s turkeys disappeared because of unregulated hunting and habitat loss in ...