Turkey season is right around the corner. Been practicing your turkey calls? Turkeys make a wide range of vocalizations. Knowing when and how to use specific types of calls can increase your chances of attracting them within range. Need some tips on how to make your calls successful? Check out this video. | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

WHAT ARE THE SOUNDS OF A TOM TURKEY? Here are several Tom turkeys in this trail camera video compilation which shows the strutting, puffing up, thumping, and making drumming sounds from male turkeys, known as Toms. They do this to entice or to court a female turkey also known as a (hen). And there’s the subtle spitting and drumming sounds, “chhhkkkk”, then “whoouump”⎯that are felt more than heard, when a turkey is very close. Here you will see and hear all of these sounds. According to the Natio