The state agency cites a 1972 federal ban on DDT, which significantly weakens eagles’ eggshells, as a major factor in the ...

A turkey vulture’s stomach acid is so powerfully corrosive it can safely digest carcasses infected with deadly diseases like rabies.

Young hunter bags a big bird to start Turkey of the Week Matthew Music, 11, bagged a very big turkey on opening day of the first youth turkey season on March 29.

Michigan residents, are you ready to talk (or spot) turkey? The Michigan Department of Natural Resources needs your help to tally wild turkeys this summer. From July 1 through Aug. 31, the DNR will ...

Annual brood surveys have shown positive results in recent years, with the statewide average of poults (young turkeys) per hen at 2.9 in 2024, 2.8 in 2023, 3.0 in 2022, and 3.1 in 2021, compared ...

The tradition of sending a Thanksgiving turkey to the White House began during the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant, who was gifted with a 34-pound bird by Rhode Island Senator H.B ...