We’re all familiar with a raspy hen yelp and a thundering tom gobble. But wild hens and gobblers make many turkey sounds beyond these two vocalizations. Each of these sounds express specific meanings.

Pennsylvania’s Matt Van Cise can yelp, cluck and cut with the best turkey callers in the world, but when he heads afield for a spring gobbler hunt, he abides by a very simple philosophy — give ’em ...

In addition to the familiar gobble of the male, wild turkeys produce a wide vocabulary of sounds, each communicating something exact to other turkeys in the area. (Watch and listen to the accompanying ...

I woke Monday morning to sunshine and the temperature hovering near 15 degrees. That’s 15 degrees celsius. At the time I was watching the weather in London, where the metric system reigns. When I ...

For the past few mornings there’s been a bunch of wild turkeys hanging around outside my kitchen window. If I wanted to get a ...

With Pennsylvania's 2025 fall turkey season opening Nov. 1, here's where and how to find a hen or gobbler for your ...

The idea of spring turkey hunting is to dress like a bush; sit in front of a wide tree to protect your back from errant shots by other hunters, and make sounds like a hen turkey. When the gobbler ...

The spring Rio Grande gobbler season gets underway on April 2 in most of the state and experts say there will be plenty of mature birds in the field. The season in 12 East Texas counties doesn't begin ...

The 2015 South Dakota archery turkey season kicks off Saturday a half hour before sunrise, and the firearms turkey season will follow, opening a week later on April 11. Both seasons close on May 17.

The big turkey gobbler opened one eye. He sat motionless on his roost limb, surveying what could see of his domain. It wasn't much as it was still dark, with just enough glow in the east to hope for a ...