How many turkeys have you...

[barry]

...seen dead on the road hit by vehicles?

I got to thinking and can only remember 3 that I have seen in my lifetime (51 years) and one of those was in SC

Well in the last 2 months there have been 4, YES FOUR, hit in a one mile stretch about 2 miles down the road from my house!
That is just crazy!

[CASH]

Just the one hen that flew in front of my truck a few years back.  She got a bumper and  9 tires

[doublebarrel]

I always know when its time to start scouting my areas. Within a 2 week period you will see 5-7 on the highway as I go to and from work. They head from winter to spring breeding areas

[gotcha]

Just the one hen that flew in front of my truck a few years back.  She got a bumper and  9 tires

Doing some quick math,was there a unicycle involved?

[redarrow]

My wife and I along with a couple good friends were in northern Michigan just driving around looking for elk. We were near the Canada Creek Ranch area. We came across 3 or 4 burnout marks in the gravel road. We figured it was probably just some young boys acting silly,spinning tires and slinging gravel. Kids stuff we all did. Then we found the carnage. These "Kids" had intentionally slammed into a flock of turkeys. I removed 14 adult turkeys from the road.Heads torn off,wings torn off, blood and feathers everywhere.We drove around looking for the culprits ,but they were gone. Found a local Sheriffs deputy doing radar patrol and reported it. Local outdoor newsletter had a brief report about it,but nobody ever arrested. It still makes me sick when I think about it.

[Spellnj3]

See plenty roadkills here in NJ all year round... unfortunately

[TrackeySauresRex]

See plenty roadkills here in NJ all year round... unfortunately

During the spring mating season,when there acting real goofy you start to see em a lot more. I'd guess 3 a season.

[Kylongspur88]

I seem to see a few each year. Almost got a nice gobbler that was strutting in the middle of the road a few years ago when I came around a curve.

[WiLL B]

Only 3 or 4 in my life. 47 years

[Neill_Prater]

Not a whole lot, but enough to where I wouldn't consider seeing one a rarity. I've come close to hitting a couple myself, but managed to avoid doing so.

On another note, I once used a road killed turkey as a scouting technique. I was hunting out-of-state, in an area I had never been to before, and saw a hen dead along the highway the first afternoon there. I figured that was as good a place as any to go hunting the next morning, and actually killed a gobbler.

[tomstopper]

Only two so far in my lifetime.

[stone road turkey calls]

I can't recall seeing one dead on the road ever. just don't remember.

[dcar_roll]

Never seen a single bird thank goodness!

[Muskie03]

Seen plenty

[lonnie sneed jr.]

Alot. I have no idea how many but it is at least 4 or 5 per year, for alot of years. I do travel alot and that makes the odds of seeing anything dead in the road high.