Wild Turkey Range Map
The Wild Turkey is a year-round resident locally from central Arizona and central Colorado to northern Iowa, central Michigan, southern New Hampshire, and southwestern Maine south to southern Texas, the Gulf Coast, and Florida. It has been reintroduced into much of its former range, and successfully introduced locally in nearly all states outside the historic range. The Wild Turkey inhabits a wide range of forest types from the wooded swamps of the eastern and southeastern states to the sparsely wooded flatlands and river bottoms of the southern Great Plains and coniferous forests of the western mountains. In the East, it prefers open, mature hardwood forests containing mast-bearing trees such as oaks; in the Southwest, it prefers more arid, grass-dominated habitats having open- topped roosting trees, water, and succulent vegetation. In the West, it most often associates with ponderosa or montane forests, scrub oaks and junipers at altitudes of 6,000 to 12,000 feet.

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