Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A wild turkey with a drooping snood. Wild turkeys have some flashy headgear. The features of a turkey head are as funny sounding ...

Before you gobble up your turkey on Thursday, take a moment or two to familiarize yourself with the strange history of the bird that's America's fourth-favorite meat source. The most familiar part of ...

On every turkey, there is a fleshy projection on top of the "nose" called the snood. There has been a lot of pondering about the function of the snood over the years by turkey hunters. On gobblers, ...

That thing is called a snood. And it's there to let the other turkeys know that its owner is kind of a big deal. When a male turkey—known as a tom—wants to mate, he faces two hurdles. One is his ...

WILDLIFE WATCHING -- The wild turkey is nothing like the fat, flightless Butterball you might be roasting today for Thanksgiving dinner. Thank God. The wild turkey is a fascinating survivor and a ...

Parts of wild turkey tom Learn some of the unique parts of a wild turkey tom Beyond the sheer size of the wild turkey, the male, or tom, of the species has a unique appearance based on an array of ...

Wild turkeys were an endangered species by the 1930s. Today, more than 7 million roam across North America. ((iStock photo)) Millions of wild turkeys used to roam freely across much of North and South ...

Parts of wild turkey tom Learn some of the unique parts of a wild turkey tom The male, or tom, wild turkey sports an array of distinctive physical features that give it a unique appearance beyond the ...