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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CONCORD, N.H. – No one wants a weasel on their Thanksgiving table, but swapping turkeys for other animals was once surprisingly common. Trading turkeys – for wildlife management, not dinner – was a ...

For the past few mornings there’s been a bunch of wild turkeys hanging around outside my kitchen window. If I wanted to get a little more technical, I’d call them a “rafter” or flock of turkeys ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Wild turkeys at the University of Minnesota have thousands of followers, literally. The Instagram account, turkeysofumn, has more than 6,000 followers. They have a form where people can ...

A remote motion sensor camera captured a wild turkey hen with ten poults in tow. The camera is located at the Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed in Florida. Wild turkey hens in Florida typically ...