New York is home to about 180,000 wild turkeys. That population has increased by six times since the 1970s. Turkeys can scratch through 4 to 6 inches of snow to find food during the winter.

The population of wild turkeys, which are native to New York, has rebounded on Long Island in recent years. The species disappeared from the area by the mid-1800s because of overhunting and ...

Wild turkeys live in the residential neighborhoods around my home in Madison, Wis. A few years ago, ... Follow New York Times Travel on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

Pennsylvania still had populations of wild turkey, thankfully. In the mid 1940s, the wild turkey’s natural range expanded back into New York due to the reforestation of abandoned agricultural areas.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission is once again calling on residents to take part in its Annual Wild Turkey Sighting Survey, ...

Wild turkeys were a 20th-century conservation triumph. After the birds dwindled or vanished across much of their ancestral range, decades of work helped re-establish healthy populations.

In New York City, a wild turkey called Astoria made headlines earlier this year for taking up residence in a Park Avenue tree and window shopping at Saks on Fifth Avenue.

Roosevelt Island is for the birds. The neighborhood will become the first in New York City to put up “Turkey Crossing” signs ...

Wild turkeys number between 30,000 and 35,000 in Massachusetts, brought back from extinction locally when birds captured in New York state in the early 1970s were released in the Berkshires.