Wild turkeys have some flashy headgear. The features of a turkey head are as funny sounding as they are funny looking. There are wart-like caruncles, flabby wattles, and — perhaps the king of turkey ...

Before you gobble up your turkey on Thursday, take a moment or two to familiarize yourself with the strange history of the bird that's America's fourth-favorite meat source. The most familiar part of ...

In the Hilton Head area, residents encounter turkeys more often than once a year on the Thanksgiving table. Most South Carolinians do. Turkeys have been here for hundreds of years, although islanders ...

On every turkey, there is a fleshy projection on top of the "nose" called the snood. There has been a lot of pondering about the function of the snood over the years by turkey hunters. On gobblers, ...

Parts of wild turkey tom Learn some of the unique parts of a wild turkey tom The male, or tom, wild turkey sports an array of distinctive physical features that give it a unique appearance beyond the ...

WILDLIFE WATCHING -- The wild turkey is nothing like the fat, flightless Butterball you might be roasting today for Thanksgiving dinner. Thank God. The wild turkey is a fascinating survivor and a ...

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, Improbable Research asks the very question you all were wondering. The snood – the long fleshy appendage above the beak, is what erects, becoming red as it engorges with ...

Parts of wild turkey tom Learn some of the unique parts of a wild turkey tom Beyond the sheer size of the wild turkey, the male, or tom, of the species has a unique appearance based on an array of ...

Wild turkeys were an endangered species by the 1930s. Today, more than 7 million roam across North America. ((iStock photo)) Millions of wild turkeys used to roam freely across much of North and South ...

In the video, the male turkey – snood engorged, tail feathers spread extravagantly – struts briskly after the U.S. Postal Service vehicle, circling the boxy white truck and lunging as the mail carrier ...