States with The Most Wild Turkeys
- statesnrates
- Nov 29, 2023
- 2 min read
This week in honor of Thanksgiving we took a look at the states with the most wild turkeys. The full list of our rankings is below below:
Texas 550,000+
Ohio 450,000+
Florida 425,000+
Missouri 400,000+
Wisconsin 375,000+
Kansas 350,000+
Kentucky 325,000+
Alabama 300,000+
North Carolina 285,000+
Georgia 275,00+
Tennessee 270,00+
California 240,00+
Turkeys can be domesticated, so these are just the numbers of wild turkeys in each state. Turkeys are a species native to the Americas. There are only 2 species of Wild Turkeys. One of these species is native to North America. While the other is native to Central America.
Nearly every state has a turkey population. Alaska is one of the biggest exceptions to this. The population of wild turkeys is more dense on the east side of the country. California is the exception when it comes to the west side of the country.
Turkeys are mostly found in open forests and like to live among the trees, so it makes sense that Turkeys are scarcely populated in the dry desert regions of the country. Turkeys are omnivores. They feed on plants, grass, leaves, nuts, small fruits, insects, worms, and small reptiles like lizards.
There are about 6 million to 7 million wild Turkey in the United States. The wild turkey is surprisingly an animal that was faced with extinction but bounced back. Deforestation and hunting severely cut down Turkey populations. In the 1970s, a conversation effort was formed and ended up being successful.
Here is a full list of all the state’s turkey populations:
Arizona: 25,000
Arkansas: 100,000
California: 240,000
Coloradao: 30,000 to 35,000
Connecticut: 34,000 to 40,000
Delaware: 6,000
Florida: 100,000 to 700,000
Georgia: 250,000 to 300,000
Hawaii: Unknown
Idaho: 30,000
Illinois: 150,000
Indiana: 120,000
Iowa: 120,000
Kansas: 300,000
Kentucky: 250,000 to 300,000
Louisiana: 40,000
Maine: 70,000
Maryland: 40,000
Massachusetts: 30,000 to 35,000
Michigan: 200,000
Minnesota: 225,000
Mississippi: 40,000
Missouri: 350,000
Montana: 120,000
Nebraska: 145,000
Nevada: 1,200
New Hampshire: 50,000
New Jersey: 20,000 to 23,000
New Mexico: 15,000 to 20,000
New York: 160,000
North Carolina: 270,000
North Dakota: 22,000
Ohio: 700,000 to 150,000
Oklahoma: 94,000
Oregon: 40,000
Pennsylvania: 170,000
Rhode Island: 4,000 to 5,000
South Carolina: 100,000
South Dakota: 50,000
Tennessee: 270,000
Texas: 500,000
Utah: 25,000 to 35,000
Vermont: 45,000
Virginia: 170,000 to 190,000
Washington: 28,000
West Virginia: 100,350
Wisconsin: 350,000
Wyoming: 15,000
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