Wild Turkey

Meleagris gallopavo

Wild Turkey photographed by Mark Curtis
Springfield · July 3, 2026
Wild Turkey photographed by Mark Curtis
Springfield · July 3, 2026
Wild Turkey photographed by Mark Curtis
Springfield · July 3, 2026

When to look

Reported most in May, across 2.6M open records.

Records by month. January, 161,320 records. February, 170,624 records. March, 240,902 records. April, 454,239 records. May, 510,898 records. June, 221,006 records. July, 153,017 records. August, 151,355 records. September, 165,543 records. October, 144,948 records. November, 114,042 records. December, 138,267 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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