2-7 SS Wild Turkey

One thing I know is that Don Jenkins knows about and loves wild turkeys. Don Jenkins with the National Wild Turkey Foundation and President of the Idaho Chapter tells us about wild turkeys in Idaho and how our population is. If you enjoy turkey hunting, you may want to consider a 2014 trip to Idaho." We are doing pretty good. The 1st turkeys were introduced in the 1960s and currently there are 30,000 turkeys in the state. There are about 15,000 turkey hunters every year. Our average annual harvest is approximately 5000 turkeys every year for both spring and fall and we harvest 3000 spring and 2000 birds in the fall.

What is wild Turkey habitat? Is it a specific type of terrain? Seems like you see them just about anywhere. You're right. Of course you don't see many out in the desert because they need to have water and roosting trees and they have to have some kind of food and cover. They will eat insects and the same kinds of things that Upland game birds eat... Insects, snails, seeds from all the grasses, pine nuts, Hawthorne berries, crabapples, apples out of people's yards. The thing that inhibits the number of birds here in Idaho is the severe winters.