For nearly two weeks, a wild turkey has been roaming the grounds of Fishtown's Palmer Cemetery and alighting on the rooftops of nearby rowhomes. Some mornings it can be heard gobbling at sunrise.

November is a bad month for turkeys. Some 46 million turkeys are carved up and eaten each Thanksgiving, the USDA estimates. In recent years, the wild turkey population explosion in Massachusetts has ...

There’s no problem spotting turkey at your local grocery — U.S. farms produce more than 200 million of the fowl a year, many of them to be carved up for Thanksgiving and Christmas. But in some parts ...