Wild Turkey Habitat
Wild Turkeys
Turkeys are wild and native to North America. Unique the honey bee that was imported into North America the wild turkey evolved in the ecosystems throughout North America. Here are some things I found out about wild turkeys of North America.
In 49 states (apart from Alaska), sections of Mexico, and southern Alberta, Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan in Canada, wild turkeys spend the entire year in open woods with scattered clearings. In the northeastern part of North America, turkeys frequent mature oak-hickory woods as well as humid red oak, beech, cherry, and white ash forests. Turkeys can be found in the Southeast in forests with pine, magnolia, beech, live oak, pecan, American elm, cedar elm, cottonwood, hickory, bald cypress, tupelo, sweetgum, or water ash, as well as understories with sourwood, huckleberry, blueberry, mountain laurel, greenbrier, rose, wisteria, buttonbush, or Southwest birds, are frequently observed in tiny oak species and open, grassy savannahs. In Alberta, turkeys inhabit the area between ponderosa pine and pinyon-juniper forests.
Wild turkeys eat vegetation that they gather when foraging in groups, mostly on the ground but occasionally scaling low shrubs or trees to reach fruit. They search the forest floor for acorns from red, white, chestnut, and black oaks, as well as American beech nuts, pecans, hickory…
