From the mountain-dwelling Goulds in the Sky Islands of New Mexico and Arizona to the notoriously cagey Osceola of the ...

The snood is a weird, fleshy feature on a wild turkey's head that plays a key role in mating, breeding, and establishing ...

Turkey calling champion Rodd Little (right) called in the largest gobbler that Tom Lounsbury has ever shot at 36 yards using ...

Wild turkey populations in New York have increased dramatically ... and the breast feathers are tipped with light tan. Male turkeys usually have spurs that vary in size up to two inches, depending on ...

Wild turkey meat tends to be a little darker ... including the beard, or the spur found on a male’s leg. The spur’s length depends on the size and age of the bird, according to Gribbons.

The eastern wild turkey is North America's most abundant ... Eastern toms are known for their long, thick, bushy beards and sharp-tipped spurs, often measuring an inch or more.

Glace Rone shot a rare, snow-white turkey, a leucistic wild bird, on the opening day of Mississippi’s spring turkey season.

Mississippi wild turkey populations have been increasing ... it's difficult to tell what spurs fluctuations. "We really need more science to understand why turkey populations go up and down ...

The hunt uses the National Wild Turkey Federation’s scoring system of body weight+2Xbeard length+10x the length of each spur. Hunter Joe Bisogno is in the lead with a bird that scored 70.375 points.

McLaughlin, left, received the National Wild Turkey Federation’s State Sharp Spur Officer of the Year Award Feb. 23 at Marshall University. It was presented by Patrick “Cully” McCurdy ...