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Topic: Eastern Wild Turkey


  
  Eastern Wild Turkey Fact Sheet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Wild turkeys are very similar to the domesticated subspecies; however, wild turkeys are slimmer, have a smaller head, and have a longer neck and body.
Wild turkey can be found in every county of the state thanks in part to an intensive trap and translocation effort by the DNR Wildlife Division.
Wild turkeys in Maryland can be found in areas comprised of mature hardwood and pine forests as well as grassy fields.
www.dnr.state.md.us /wildlife/wildturkey.html   (357 words)

  
 ESPN Outdoors - Profile: Eastern Wild Turkey
Turkey legs are pinkish to gray or fl and males have spurs (rarely females).
The turkey prefers roosting in trees on a hillside that allows it to glide down a hill or in cottonwoods or similar trees near water.
Eastern North America from southern Canada to Florida and as far west as Texas and Kansas to South Dakota.
sports.espn.go.com /outdoors/hunting/news/story?page=g_enc_eastern_turkey   (327 words)

  
 WILD TURKEY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The wild turkey is a shy, permanent resident of Pennsylvania's woods and mountains.
The wild turkey looks much like the domesticated subspecies, except the wild bird is slimmer, has a smaller head, a longer neck, longer, rangier legs, and smaller fleshy head and neck adornments.
Today turkeys are found throughout the state and are abundant in areas where, in the past, continual releases of game farm turkeys failed to establish even limited self-sustaining populations.
www.panwtf.com /turkeyprofile.html   (2539 words)

  
 Young Naturalists: Turkey: Minnesota Conservation Volunteer: Minnesota DNR
Turkeys feed on insects and young plants in the spring and summer.
And wild turkeys lost their food and shelter as the settlers cut down the forests to get logs and firewood and to clear fields for farming.
The store-bought turkey on your Thanksgiving table is a domesticated (tame) version of the wild turkey.
www.dnr.state.mn.us /young_naturalists/turkey   (927 words)

  
 The Wild Turkey Zone: Eastern Wild Turkey
The eastern wild turkey is the most populous of the five distinct subspecies found in the United States and can be found throughout the eastern United States and has been transplanted to some western states as well.
Easterns are the heaviest of the 5 subspecies, and the turkeys found in the northern parts of the U.S. can really become large.
The Eastern Wild Turkey inhabits the eastern half of the U.S., and can be found in hardwood and mixed forests from New England and southern Canada to northern Florida.
www.wildturkeyzone.com /wildturkey/eastern.htm   (436 words)

  
 Robyn's Wild Turkey Page
Aside from domestic turkeys being fatter and physically different, being unable to fly or breed naturally, and having even less intelligence, they are essentially the same as wild turkeys when it comes to care (except for breeding which must be done artificially in domestic turkeys).
Wild turkey eggs hatch in about 28 days after the incubation is begun (not necessarily after the egg is laid).
As it is legal to buy wild turkey eggs and poults from a game farm (bird supplier) and keep them in most cases (legal to keep but not release), this is not that much different as far as how the poults are raised and kept.
www.fishpondinfo.com /turkey.htm   (3634 words)

  
 Eastern Wild Turkey
During spring hunting seasons turkey may also frequent food plots for the insects they attract, which provide hens with protein and calcium needed for reproduction.
The ability of supplemental forage to increase populations of turkey is unknown.
An attempt to increase turkey numbers should focus on late-winter to early spring when natural foods of turkey are scarce.
www.afrc.uamont.edu /foodplots/eastern_wild_turkey.htm   (172 words)

  
 Wild Turkey-Housing Association Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The range and numbers of the Wild Turkey had decreased at the beginning of the 20th century due to hunting and...
The eastern wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris) is the most widely distributed, abundant and hunted subspecies of the five distinct subspecies found in the United States.
The wild turkey is a large ground-dwelling bird that is 36-44 inches in length...
www.housing-association.info /wild-turkey.html   (549 words)

  
 WILD TURKEY - appearance, food, home, nest and young, enemies
The wild turkey is a "chicken-like" bird, related to the grouse, quail and pheasant.
Turkeys were also moved to places where they had disappeared and the numbers grew.
Their numbers have increased due to strict hunting laws and by reintroducing wild turkeys to certain areas.
www.saskschools.ca /~gregory/thanks/wildtky.html   (921 words)

  
 A look at the Eastern Wild Turkey
The eastern wild turkey is the most widely distributed, abundant, and hunted turkey subspecies of the 5 distinct subspecies found in the United States.
The eastern wild turkey is found in the hardwood and mixed forests from New England and southern Canada to northern Florida and west to Texas, Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota.
Since the eastern wild turkey ranges the farthest north, individuals can also grow to be among the largest of any of the subspecies.
www.american-hunter.com /Articles/easternturkey.htm   (378 words)

  
 Yak's Corner
A turkey is a member of the chicken family, which includes chickens, pheasants and grouse.
Wild turkeys used to live in most forests east of the Mississippi River from Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico.
In the 1950s, conservationists began breeding wild turkeys and releasing them in the forests that were left.
www.yakscorner.com /stories/wildturkey.htm   (183 words)

  
 National Wild Turkey Federation - All About Turkeys
The eastern wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris(is the most widely distributed, abundant and hunted subspecies of the five distinct subspecies found in the United States.
The eastern wild turkey is found in hardwood and mixed forests from New England and southern Canada and northern Florida in the east to Texas, Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota in the west.
The eastern wild turkey ranges the farthest north and individuals can grow to be among the largest of any of the subspecies.
www.nwtf.org /all_about_turkeys/history_eastern_wild_turkey.html   (328 words)

  
 asheville.com news: Eastern Wild Turkeys.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Restoring the native wild turkey throughout the Eastern United States stands as one of the most successful restoration efforts in the history of wildlife management.
The wild turkey population had fallen from 7 million, at the time of the arrival of the first European settlers, to 30 thousand in the 1930s.
Modern turkey restoration efforts received a major boost in 1951 when biologists in South Carolina's Francis Marion National Park perfected the use of cannon nets to trap wild turkeys.
www.asheville.com /news/turkeys.html   (286 words)

  
 Wild Turkey Hunting :: South Carolina turkey hunting, spring turkey hunting at its finest.
Wild Turkey Hunting :: South Carolina turkey hunting, spring turkey hunting at its finest.
Turkey hunting is unlike most hunting because it is a one-on-one situation.
Of one thing you can be sure, turkey hunting is a sport of great challenge, patience, practice and a lot of desire to outwit that wise old gobbler.
www.bostick-plantation.com /turkey_hunting.php   (336 words)

  
 Wildlife: Eastern Wild Turkey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The wild turkey is an omnivore with its annual diet consisting of 90% plant and 10% animal matter.
Turkeys usually select areas with dense brush, tall grass and fallen tree tops (i.e., recent clear cuts) for nesting.
Dogs have been identified as serious predators of wild turkeys in the southeast and therefore should be controlled during critical nesting and brood rearing seasons.
www.dof.virginia.gov /mgt/wildlife/east-wild-turkey.shtml   (767 words)

  
 The Eastern Wild Turkey Facts Page by HuntingMe.Com
Turkeys are social birds and in winter often separate into three distinct groups: adult males (toms), young males (jakes), and females (hens) of all ages.
Turkeys foraging in agricultural areas in the fall and spring eat mostly waste grains, wild plants, insects, and young grasses.
Turkeys need water almost daily, and hens rarely nest farther than a quarter-mile from a reliable water source such as a creek, spring, seep, or farm pond.
www.hunting.bookpub.net /turkeyfacts.html   (1089 words)

  
 Turkey Hunting
Turkeys were mainly bred for their beautifully coloured plumage until about 1935, after which the breeding emphasis changed to their meat qualities.
Other distinguishing features of the common turkey are a long red fleshy ornament (called a snood) that grows from the forehead over the bill; a fleshy wattle growing from the throat; a tuft of coarse, fl, hair like feathers (known as a beard) projecting from the breast; and more or less prominent leg spurs.
Turkey production has thus tended to be seasonal, though in the United States and some other countries, ready-to-cook, lean, boned turkey is available in rolls any time of the year.
www.huntingsociety.org /turkeyhunting.html   (3112 words)

  
 Sherpa Guides | Tennessee | The Tennessee Mountains | Sidebars | Eastern Wild Turkey
The Eastern wild turkey, the most numerous of the five turkey subspecies, was shunned by the Indians.
Turkey numbers were high, and turkeys were easily hunted before the white settlers came.
Turkeys were trapped in the Ocoee Ranger District for repopulating other areas of the state.
sherpaguides.com /tennessee/sidebars/eastern_wild_turkey.html   (153 words)

  
 Wild Turkey Hunting
Wild turkey hunting is four times safer than playing Ping-Pong, and you are 50 times more likely to take a trip to the emergency room if you play golf.
It is a case study in wild turkey behavior and a veteran wild turkey hunters savvy and calling skill.
National Wild Turkey Federation Honors Conservation Volunteers, Youth Involved In Wildlife Conservation, and Women in the Outdoors, and JAKES and L.A. Dixon awards presented to local NWTF chapters.
bowhunting.net /wildturkey.net   (3142 words)

  
 Wild Turkey
The wild turkey is West Virginia largest game bird.
Turkeys may roam over only a few hundred acres or a few thousand acres.
The wild turkey is West Virginia largest game bird and good turkey habitat is the key to the abundance of wild turkeys.
www.richwooders.com /appalachian/wildlife/wild-turkey.htm   (161 words)

  
 Eastern Wild Turkey
One thing I love about hunting turkeys is trying to fool them and I know if you haven’t hunted turkeys before it sounds like something that wouldn’t be very hard to do.
I have found that when most people think of wild turkeys, they tend to think of their experiences with chickens.
I wanted to convey that moment when the turkey is close enough to hear it walking through the leaves and all of a sudden it sounds off.
www.adamgrimm.com /past/turkey.html   (204 words)

  
 Tick's Worst Nightmare: Eastern Wild Turkey
Turkeys are opportunistic eaters, but they do have a taste for small, crawling things like ticks (especially young turkeys, who l ove the tiny, eight-legged vampires).
Now, you know that no matter how hungry a turkey might be, you would need a lot of them to do any real damage to the tick population.
I will further point out that turkeys not only eat ticks, ticks apparently like to return the favor and have been known to use the turkey as a host.
www.pahealthsystems.com /message149675.html   (1241 words)

  
 georgia eastern wild turkey hunting news, the latest buzz, top articles & more   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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 turkey, in zoology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Turkeys are indigenous to the New World; American fossils date back 40 million years to the Oligocene.
The Mexican turkey, taken to Europe in the 16th cent.
Wild turkeys are woodland birds, gregarious except at breeding time.
www.infoplease.com /id/A0849736   (285 words)

  
 Georgia Eastern Wild Turkey Hunting at Bestplantationgetaways.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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 Eastern Wild Turkey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Eastern wild turkey Meleagris gallopavo is one of the five subspecies of wild turkey found in the United States.
A tom or male Eastern wild turkey can weight over 24 pounds and a female or hen can weight over 12 pounds.
Wildlife Profile: Eastern Wild Turkey New Hampshire Fish and Game Department page on the Eastern wild turkey.
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 eastern wild turkey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
guide Roger and his hunter, Chris, with an eastern wild turkey killed in the spring of 2001.
Our turkey hunts are now offered in the spring and fall.
Our Spring turkey hunting is phenomenal with huge flocks of hens and big gobblers.
www.stromanoutfitters.com /turkey2.html   (198 words)

  
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 Ontario Turkey Hunting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
offices in areas with a wild turkey hunt.
Ontario’s wild turkey season is also open to non-residents that:
Both turkey and deer hunts can be paid by PayPal or by money order.
www.viktoryoutfitters.com /turkey.htm   (316 words)

  
 For Sale:Eastern Wild Turkey Eggs (Fertile)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
I am taking orders for fertile Eastern Wild Turkey eggs to be shipped starting in March and running through late August.
This is the actual Eastern Wild Turkey strain.
Please reply with how many dozen eggs you would like to purchase this spring and your mailing address with Zip Code.
www.taxidermyusa.com /fleamarket/_disc4/00001b40.htm   (328 words)

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