The spirited gobbling of wild turkeys echoes through oak mottes and mesquite thickets as Rio Grande gobblers herald dawn. With hens in the vanguard and gaudy gobblers strutting behind, turkeys ...

A poor nesting season for Rio Grande turkeys in 2022 could catch up to hunters ... Wildflowers are popping up early and the early green-up will allow hens to gorge in preparation for early nesting ...

Rio Grande turkeys are grassland birds that thrive in ... “The entire thing works because enough hens survive the winter to produce a new set of poults the following spring.

Gobblers are expected to spread out in search of hens, hens in search of nesting ... current dry conditions across much of the Rio Grande wild turkey range in coming weeks, biologists expect ...

Also, hens could remain flocked together as the ... There are some counties around the state where Rio Grande turkeys are struggling because of drought or urban encroachment into what had been ...

A strutting Rio Grande gobbler. Its lengthy snood is likely a sign ... Size also matters to female turkeys. Research indicates that hens are totally checking out the snoods on the gobblers who are ...

Sometimes gobblers will be gobbling their heads off every time they hear a plaintive hen yelp ... that has a very healthy population of Rio Grande turkey and several years ago, eastern turkey ...

Moments later, over 100 Rio Grande turkeys sailed down from the ... lured by my feeble attempts to mimic a hen turkey yelp. Moments later, I stroked the bird’s iridescent plumage in the evening ...

Starting in the late 1980s leading up to the end of the millennium, it seemed that landowners and hunters suddenly woke up to the fact that Texas Rio Grande turkey hunting was the best and most ...

They were the Rio Grande turkeys, and they were all released in ... breeding time for turkeys when gobblers display to ...

Rio Grande turkeys are grassland birds that thrive in the prairies ... “The entire thing works because enough hens survive the winter to produce a new set of poults the following spring. And from ...