Talk:Wild turkey

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I removed an image titled for male and female Wild Turkey, since it appears to show two males, and they are apparently domestic or escaped birds, since one is white, and the other appears to be of the widely introduced SW form merriami. jimfbleak 07:18, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Accuracy Dispute

I'd just like to flag the following statement in the "Range and population" section of this Wikipedia article:

"By the 1940s, it was almost totally extirpated from Canada and had become localized in pockets in the United States, in the north-east effectively restricted to the Appalachians, only as far north as central Pennsylvania."

Though the dating of this statement places it approximately 20-30 years prior to another statement in the "Turkey (bird)" Wikipedia article, I believe that the accuracy of this statement needs to be reconciled with a statement in the "Destruction and re-introduction in the United States" section of the latter article, which states, "In the 1960s and 1970s, biologists started trapping wild turkeys from the few places they remained (including the Ozarks and New York), and re-introducing them into other states, including Minnesota and Vermont." This sentence contains multiple citations in its article.

The main conflict of these statements is that the "Wild turkey" article indicates that wild turkeys existed no further north than central Pennsylvania, whereas the "Turkey (bird)" article contradicts this statement, as turkeys are stated to have been captured from New York, specifically in the Adirondacks, which are not only further north, but also technically not part of the Appalachian Mountains. ~2026-34723-43 (talk) 17:15, 13 June 2026 (UTC)