The Turkey Feather Fire continues to grow in the Gila Wilderness while the Laguna Fire continues to burn in northern New ...

Several fires are still actively burning in New Mexico where wildfire risk is still high in many areas despite monsoon starting.

The Rio Grande birds, first imported to the state from Mexico by ranchers in the late 19th century, were the first wild turkeys in California, although the fossil remains of a turkey-like bird ...

As the charismatic birds reintroduced to the region in the 1980s pop up more frequently, human-turkey encounters are on the rise ...

Adult male Merriam’s wild turkey in Upper Sonoran life zone habitat, ... Females have buff-tipped breast feathers and have a whiter appearance. Rio Grande turkey.

Wild turkeys are enigmas cloaked in sheaths of bronze and black, purple and brown and blue/green and ocher feathers that fairly shimmer when a low-angle sun illuminates them on a bright spring ...

For as long as anyone can remember, the flock of wild Rio Grande turkeys that live in Sun City, a sprawling 55-and-over community in Georgetown, had coexisted peacefully with the retirees.

New research sheds light on the production of an 800-year-old turkey feather blanket and explores the economic and cultural aspects of raising turkeys to supply feathers in the ancient Southwest.

Currently, wild turkey populations are thought to be thriving in Texas, with an estimated 500,000 Rio Grande turkeys, 16,000 eastern turkeys, and a few hundred Merriam’s turkeys.

One turkey is native to Colorado and the other was introduced in the 1980s to help repopulate after turkeys reached a low total population of around 35,000. Merriam’s turkey ...