Turkeys live in forests and open woodlands across much of the Americas, with wild populations found in 49 of the contiguous United States and parts of Canada and Mexico. They primarily inhabit hardwood and mixed forests with clearings, scrubby edges, and agricultural areas nearby. Key points

• Native habitat: open forests with interspersed clearings, often in hardwood or mixed pine forests, as well as grasslands or agricultural edges. This allows them to forage on seeds, nuts, berries, and small invertebrates.
• Geographic range: wild turkeys are found across most of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, with some populations extending into parts of Montana, California, and the Sierra Nevada in Mexico; in Canada, they occur in southern regions and nearby areas, but Alaska is outside their range.
• Subspecies and variation: five subspecies occupy different habitats (swamps, oak-hickory forests, desert edges, montane forests, etc.), illustrating their adaptability to diverse forest ecosystems.

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