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Egg of wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)The turkey is a large bird in the genus Meleagris, native to North America.There are two extant turkey species: the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) of eastern and central North America and the ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata) of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.
Wild turkeys generally feed on seeds, nuts, insects and berries. They also love food left out by people — intentionally or by accident — such as bird seed, pet food, chicken feed and table scraps.
Wild turkeys in Michigan have every right to strut. Their native populations wiped out in Michigan by European settlers by 1900, decades of restoration efforts starting in the 1950s have restored ...
An abundance of wild turkeys is present in Indiana and the Brood X cicadas that emerged 2 years ago is one of the reasons.
The wild turkey is further divided into six subspecies. To harvest a bird from the Eastern, Osceola, Rio Grande, and Merriam's wild turkey subspecies is known in turkey hunting circles as a "grand slam". [2] Harvesting a bird from all the subspecies in the "grand slam" as well as the Gould's wild turkey subspecies and the ocellated turkey is ...
Hunters registered 50,435 wild turkeys in the 2024 Wisconsin spring turkey hunting season, 22% higher than the five-year average and four highest in history. ... The birds are now found in all 72 ...
For species found in the 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, the taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) used in the list are those of the AOS, the recognized scientific authority on the taxonomy and nomenclature of North and Middle American birds.
Archaeologists have found turkey bones in American Indian burial mounds in Tennessee, Kentucky and other areas in the South. Turkeys were raised in Mexico and Central America for more than 500 ...