It is always captivating to watch a young fawn with brilliant white spots following a large doe near a wood lot or to see ...

Interesting rather than attractive, a turkey’s head has a caruncle and a snood. Turkeys have been in New Zealand since 1890. Originally most were farmed along with domestic hens and ducks ...

Studies have shown that hens favor gobblers with longer snoods. A longer snood may be the turkey equivalent of a statement on a tom’s physical fitness, overall health and virility.

Final Thoughts on Turkey Snoods An Eastern longbeard gobbles as he comes in. Photo by Tom Reichner / Adobe Stock. We may think a fat, floppy snood makes a gobbler look goofy, but hens don’t think so.

If a turkey is coming toward you and constantly going in and out of strut, his head is whitish-blue, and his snood hanging low—there's no reason to rush.

Turkey the country, named Turkey the bird, Or something like that, ‘cause that’s what I heard. To name a group, the term that you’re after Is “posse” or “gang”, “raffle” or “rafter.” The girl is a ...

A flash of motion caught my attention. It was a hawk that was making swift strafing runs at the turkey brood. What would the mother hen do?

Wild Turkeys are spectacular birds, coming in an array of colors and sporting a variety of eye-popping appendages. The wattle—the colorful flap of bare skin hanging from a turkey’s head—may be the ...

The waddle and snood are far more prominent in Toms than hens and, during spring breeding season, the snood and waddle can become quite colorful with lots of reds and blues.

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 ...

Statewide, spring turkey season lasts for five weeks, from April 13 to 28 (gobblers only, one-half hour before sunrise until 12 noon each day. This ensures safety for the hens who are nesting during ...

It's uncommon to see a bearded hen. ... An unusual stimulus-and-response, true, but in fact a beaver dam exploded, so my daughter bagged a bearded wild turkey hen.