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Wisconsin wild turkey hunting report

Last updated 2026-09-24 · from WDNR data · 2026 season year

Wild turkey season is open in Wisconsin today, and shuts January 3. The bird is a stronghold in Wisconsin.

Season status

Today
Open
Season
September 12, 2026 to January 3, 2027 — 114 days afield
Bag
not published

Computed against the day this page was built, from WDNR's dates. This page carries no weather and no bird count: this app holds neither a hunting-weather model nor a population survey for wild turkey, and a report that invented either would be worse than one that says so.

September in the cover

Mature hardwoods that carry mast — oak ridges and beech — against open ground: pasture, food plot, log landing or field edge where birds strut and feed. Roost trees are usually the biggest timber near water.

Where the bird is

Statewide and abundant, and one of the strongest turkey populations in the country. The south and west carry the most birds — the Driftless coulees and the farm-and-woodlot country of the south-east — and the north holds them more thinly. Both seasons run: fall from September into January, and spring in six one-week periods drawn by zone.

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Stronghold Regular Present Occasional No records The 10 units in the table below
35 of 43 subbasins draining Wisconsin carry a wild turkey record. Observed occurrences, not a range map and not a habitat model. Scored as a share of all bird records in the same cell, so a well-watched county does not read as better bird country than an unwatched one. The mesh is the subbasin — the unit this app scores in — and not the state line, so its edge is a drainage divide rather than a border. The green is the 10 public units in the table below, drawn as PAD-US records their boundaries: context, not permission.

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