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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BLACKHAWK — Phil Martinelli planted his feet firmly under a stand of tall oak trees, popped a plastic disc in his mouth, and blew a call of the wild. “Yelp. Yelp. Yelp.” The crisp morning air echoed ...

DEAR JOAN: We have turkeys crossing the hill behind our house throughout the year, some times more than others, but virtually always in groups. Lately, however, we’ve had a solitary turkey hanging ...

Pennsylvania’s fields and forests just got a little more crowded this week with turkey hunters joining archery deer hunters ...