It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a wild turkey and its babies. ODNR has counted the wild turkey hatches of 2024, using a metric called Ohio’s wild turkey poult index, according to their website.

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MyDNR, Indiana’s Outdoor Newsletter: Every May, wild turkey chicks (poults) begin to hatch in Indiana, and DNR needs your help counting turkey broods (hens with poults) and hens without poults. Brood ...

It appears that the prognosticating woodchuck got it right back on Groundhog Day when he predicted an early spring. Quicker than average warm-ups in springtime have proven to be tough on turkey ...

Mama wasn’t happy and she was letting me know it. I was on a late spring hike near Julian and had strayed too close to a well-hidden wild turkey nest. As the poults scattered, the protective adult ...

Wild Bulletin, Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Fish and Wildlife: Your contributions to the 2023 Turkey Brood Survey surpassed the goal of 3,000 observations. Between July 1-Aug. 31, you ...

It is always captivating to watch a young fawn with brilliant white spots following a large doe near a wood lot or to see small Canadian Goose ducklings waddling behind their waterfowl adults near the ...

Last year, we sat down with Drs. Mike Chamberlain and Patrick H. Wightman at the annual NWTF National Convention with some pressing questions about wild turkeys: Were bird numbers still declining? Did ...

Gathering around the holiday table might include turkey as part of your shared meal with family and friends. Whether it’s ...

Luther College senior biology major Avery Wrage swabs the inside of a turkey egg to collect samples for DNA analysis at Sampson Hoffland Laboratory at the college in Decorah on Thursday. The college ...