Not giving it up cold turkey: Bird hunters just winging it

In this Monday, May 4, 2020 photo, a wild turkey crosses a field in Freeport, Maine. States around the country are encouraging hunters to hunt turkeys this spring despite social distancing rules. The hunt will look different than usual because of concerns about the virus.

Every state except Alaska, which is the only state with no turkeys, hosts a spring turkey hunt each year. The birds, whose domesticated cousins grace Thanksgiving tables from Hawaii to Maine, are among America’s greatest conservation success stories. But all 49 states are going ahead with turkey hunts in some form or another, said Mark Hatfield, national director of conservation services for the South Carolina-based National Wild Turkey Federation. That even includes Hawaii, where the birds aren’t native but were introduced in the 1960s.

Turkey hunting takes place every spring in part to control the population of the birds, which were once numbered in only the tens of thousands before repopulation efforts brought them back. The population rose to 1.3 million in the early 1970s and is now more than 6 million, Hatfield said. “That person may say, ‘Well I’m going to turkey hunt more. I used to be able to turkey hunt more on the weekend, now I can do it during the week.’ It could increase the harvest of resident hunters,” Hatfield said.

You really need to start employing actual Americans

Umm. Hawaii is a state without turkeys. Unless you’re including the recent visitors that are taking advantage of cheap flights, flying to Hawaii and breaking quarantine. Then yes. We do hunt for those types of turkeys.

ARAAM KAROJI

Oh no walking in a field 50 feet away from the closest other person, cant have that.

This is a good thing. Buncha Karens notwithstanding.

No turkeys in Alaska?

👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻

Someone needs to instruct these turkeys in social distancing!!!! It saves life’s!!!!🤪

Still waiting for my State to process my unemployment claim, for over a month. hunting turkeys is the best idea I’ve heard to feed my family. If they aren’t sending cash have them send a gun + ammo.

I hope the do in my area. Damn things caused a car accident I was in.

The media really needs to employ some rural Americans. How could a pandemic affect an activity where you are outdoors and by yourself or a small group?

Wild turkeys are scary af. A few years ago my son ran in the house yelling big chickens were chasing him. Turns out it was a pack of 7 or 8 wild turkeys running around my backyard.

Alaska has no turkeys?

Run my little babies, run! TeamTurkey

No turkeys in Alaska? Doesn’t Sarah Palin still live there?

God bless the turkeys. I hope the hunters have a very bad year.

What a shame...go vegan...

The biggest Turkey lives in the Whitehouse

No turkeys in Alaska. Only thing I've learnt on Twitter today. Is it true?

Wild Turkeys are scarey!! They roam in packs and will chase you!

It will be held in the freezer section of your local grocery store

There are turkeys in Hawaii? 🤔

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