With Thanksgiving fast approaching, let's talk turkey. You may be thinking that the most important question of the day is how to cook a turkey for your Thanksgiving meal. Do you roast, deep fry or ...

That means wild turkeys do eat pill bugs, grasshoppers, beetles, snails, caterpillars, and ticks. Turkeys forage for these food sources throughout the day by scratching and pecking at the ground. The ...

They don't fly at great heights or over great distances, but wild turkeys can fly at speeds up to 55 miles per hour, according to the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources.

Wild turkeys are considerably smaller in size and can still fly. Credit: DepositPhotos “It really shows you how much genetic potential was in those birds to begin with,” Blatchford said.

Wild turkeys dash out of sight at upward of 25 mph, making them a tough target. And they can fly up to 55 mph. Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning.

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Wild turkeys in Michigan have every right to strut. Their native populations wiped out in Michigan by European settlers by 1900, decades of restoration efforts starting in the 1950s have restored ...

“They fly up at dusk," says Something Wild co-host Dave Anderson, who works with the Forest Society. "Then at 7:30 in the morning, they come sailing down into openings." It's safer for turkeys ...

European settlers wiped out Michigan's native wild turkey population by 1900. ... Turkeys fly up into trees to sleep, and hunters aren't allowed to take them in trees, Donley said.

Wild turkeys can fly, reportedly up to 50 miles per hour for short stretches of up to an eighth of a mile. They roost in trees or on rooftops. Their takeoffs are loud and helicopter style, ...

The Southeastern U.S. has seen an overall decline in wild turkeys, and other states haven’t been able to give Texas as many turkeys. Unless, of course, they’re making pilots nervous at airports.