A wild turkey's life came to a gruesome end on Saturday after it tried to cross Interstate 15 in Box Elder County.

Of the 5 different subspecies, the Eastern wild turkey has the largest geographical ... by the chestnut brown tips on its tail feathers. This stands in stark contrast to the Merriams, for example ...

The most reliable characteristic used to determine the sex of a wild turkey is the plumage, or feathers. The plumage of males appears to change from rust to green to copper to bronze to gold depending ...

The eastern wild turkey is North America's most abundant ... Up close, toms feature beautiful dark brown or chestnut tail feathers, giving way to slightly softer (lighter) tail tips above a ...

Wild turkeys were abundant across North ... year-round – sometimes for their meat and feathers, but settlers also took turkey eggs from nests and poisoned adult turkeys to keep them from ...

“The wild turkey you see standing in the road and backyards ... Those have plumes of dark brown or black feathers that protrude from the chest, and if a hunter kills one, it’s likely to ...

A turkey vulture standing on the ground can, at a distance, resemble a wild turkey ... especially on the feather edges. Legs are dark to pinkish in color, the head unfeathered.

Glace Rone of Kosciusko, Mississippi, tagged a once-in-a-lifetime white wild turkey on March 15 ... The tom’s striking white feathers made it easy to identify, and it had made several ...