We’re all familiar with a raspy hen yelp and a thundering tom gobble. But wild hens and gobblers make many turkey sounds beyond these two vocalizations. Each of these sounds express specific meanings.

BLACKHAWK — Phil Martinelli planted his feet firmly under a stand of tall oak trees, popped a plastic disc in his mouth, and blew a call of the wild. “Yelp. Yelp. Yelp.” The crisp morning air echoed ...

In addition to the familiar gobble of the male, wild turkeys produce a wide vocabulary of sounds, each communicating something exact to other turkeys in the area. (Watch and listen to the accompanying ...

Pennsylvania’s Matt Van Cise can yelp, cluck and cut with the best turkey callers in the world, but when he heads afield for a spring gobbler hunt, he abides by a very simple philosophy — give ’em ...

VAUGHN, Kitsap County — Turkey caller Al Prante says the way to lure a turkey is to sound like a sexy female. Prante is president of the Narrows Strut Busters chapter of the National Wild Turkey ...

Spice up your Thanksgiving dinner toast this year by sprinkling in some poultry stats: Did you know Minnesota has raised more than 2.3 billion turkeys since 1929, more than any other state? And, ...

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