When Spanish explorers first encountered the turkey in the Americas (modern-day Mexico) during the 16th century, they incorrectly assumed it was related to the African guinea fowl, a bird that had ...

Turkey prices are down. A deadly bird flu could change that 68M birds killed by virus since Feb. 2022 Saturday, December 2, 2023 ...

Residents cry fowl after Canadian hunter kills terrorizing turkey with slingshot By Yaron Steinbuch Published March 1, 2024, 2:04 p.m. ET ...

A year later the turkey population had ballooned to 1,000. Now, more than 30,000 turkeys are estimated to live in the state. The repopulation efforts have been dubbed a conservation success story; ...

More than 50 people in Turkey are being tested for the H5N1 strain of bird flu. Already the outbreak there is the largest yet seen in the world, with almost as many cases as Indonesia had in the ...

For as long as the New World turkeys have been in Europe, they’ve been featured in celebratory meals. The English word first appears in print in an account of a banquet hosted by politician John ...

The outbreak of a highly pathogenic bird flu (HPAI) has killed off about 1.27 million turkey meat birds this year, the Agriculture Department reported in mid-October.

Egg and turkey prices are down. But a deadly bird flu is still threatening poultry flocks, turkey in particular. So while breakfast is likely to stay cheap, get ready for more expensive turkey ...

The bird has become so associated with harvest-time celebratory dinners that we’ve been calling Thanksgiving “Turkey Day” since at least 1870.