We’re all familiar with a raspy hen yelp and a thundering tom gobble. But wild hens and gobblers make many turkey sounds beyond these two vocalizations. Each of these sounds express specific meanings.

A tom turkey is strutting for a hen decoy. The colorful male is attempting to woe the hen by fanning his tail and dragging his wings, all while its head and neck are glowing red, white and blue, and ...

A skinny "jake'' turkey decoy, left, and a flopped-over foam hen turkey decoy were enough to help lure in a nice tom turkey for John Myers in May near Barnum.

PINE RIVER — An old saying among wild turkey hunters goes something like this: “Only freight trains and barred owls arise as early as turkey hunters.” I thought about this as four of us — turkey ...

The opening of Washington spring turkey hunting season is just nine days away. While some folks will be slaving away to try to get their taxes filed, a large group of hunters will be in the woods, in ...

The amazing comeback of the wild turkey, after near extinction, is truly a conservation success story. By 1900, due to habitat loss and unregulated hunting, wild turkeys could only be found in very ...

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 ...