This large game bird was once reduced in number to about 130,000, but conservation efforts have increased its number to about 4 million!

The Wild Turkey population was much reduced in the 1940s due to overhunting and a reduction of suitable habitat. A success story for modern hunting regulations and wildlife conservation, it is now common over both its historic range and in new areas as well.

Wild Turkeys have long been a source of food for people. Only deer bones are more numerous than turkey bones in the remains of Native American villages in the eastern U.S. prior to European colonization.