Wild eastern turkeys are known for strutting and their trademark gobbling sound to attract females during mating season.
Earlier this week, we kicked off our 2025 Strut Reporters coverage by breaking down the five key phases of the turkey breeding season and asking our experts—15 of them from all around the country—to ...
“Struttin’ in the Bluegrass,” hosted by Kentucky native Merle Hacker, returns April 12-16. The series will appear on the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources’ Facebook (@kdfwr), ...
At this time of year, wild eastern turkeys are still congregated in the flocks of 20 or so birds with which they spend the winter. Groups of hens, mature female turkeys, will generally winter with the ...
It was perfect until it wasn’t. Suddenly, the puffed-up tom dropped strut, stretched his neck, did an about-face, and scurried away. I could’ve killed this gobbler multiple times but I wanted him to ...
It's that time of year when, if in the right place, you'll see turkeys strutting trying to impress the ladies. Jerry Spears captured a series of pictures of a tom going from full strut into a gobble.