Rio Grande – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Wild Turkey Portraits From Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge

By Mia McPherson|May 21st, 2025|Categories: Comanche County, Oklahoma, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Wild Turkeys|Tags: adult, close up, male, Meleagris gallopavo, oak forest, portrait, Rio Grande, spring, tom, turkey, turkeys, upland terrestrial birds, Wild Turkey, woodlands|

I'm sharing a few Wild Turkey portraits taken last week near a creek at Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge in Comanche County, Oklahoma.

Wild Turkey Tom Strutting and Displaying Plus Memories Turkeys Arouse In Me

By Mia McPherson|March 31st, 2018|Categories: Birds, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Wild Turkeys|Tags: displaying, junipers, Meleagris gallopavo, Meleagris gallopavo intermedia, mountains, Rio Grande, sagebrush, Southwestern, strutting, tom, turkey, turkeys, upland terrestrial birds, Wild Turkey|

Breeding season has begun for Wild Turkeys so when I spotted a flock of them yesterday in the Stansbury Mountains in Tooele County I was hoping to photograph a tom turkey strutting.

Wild Turkeys in Northern Utah

By Mia McPherson|October 22nd, 2017|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Utah, Wild Turkeys|Tags: adult, autumn, flight, flying, hen, hillside, Meleagris gallopavo, Meleagris gallopavo intermedia, Promontory Peninsula, Rio Grande, Rio Grande Wild Turkeys, turkey, turkeys, upland terrestrial birds, Wild Turkey|

It was a fine Autumn morning for photographing Wild Turkeys in northern Utah yesterday because the skies were mostly clear and the turkeys were a bit more cooperative than usual.