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In this Tom Opre film, we explore the enigmatic world of the Osceola turkey and the singular habitats where it lives. Threatened by habitat loss, invasive species and urban sprawl, the future of this species and our ability to pursue it is in our hands.
Steven Rinella talks with Michael Chamberlain, Brody Henderson, Seth Morris, and Janis Putelis.
Topics discussed: Just how much is a unit of blood?; packin’ tourniquets; how Jani’s wife won’t give Steve weasel trapping permission; etymology; hunting turkeys with dogs; the kee-kee run; how many critters kill and eat turkeys?; the wild turkey Bermuda Triangle; more things that make a turkey gobble; mesomammals; lies your daddy told you about wildlife; song meters and gobbling data; some big turkeys get all of the love; will hunting go to hell?; having an incredible sense of place and a big home range; hatching into a social hierarchy; and more.
This Turkey Tuesday is about the amazing array of things wild turkeys eat, which is on full display in summer. Research has shown that what turkeys eat depends entirely on
This Turkey Tuesday is about the importance of the feathering on the head of hens. When we think of a turkey’s head, we often think about toms as their heads
After a 2-week hiatus so I could chase turkeys instead of post about them, this Turkey Tuesday is about broods and how their behavior changes rapidly as they age. With
This week Dr. Mike Chamberlain drops in and we discuss a variety of topics. Mike updates us on the extensive research his team is doing on the LPDV virus, we
This Turkey Tuesday is about a wild turkey’s eyes. Every turkey hunter knows that turkeys have keen vision, and that vision is the bird’s primary way of detecting danger. But
This week we tell all about some turkey misses we remember that haunt us to this day. We’re joined in studio by Dr. Michael Chamberlain, who listens to our stories,
In this Tom Opre film, we explore the enigmatic world of the Osceola turkey and the singular habitats where it lives. Threatened by habitat loss, invasive species and urban sprawl,
We took a new approach to estimating home ranges for Rio Grande hens, basing our estimates solely on where birds were in the reproductive phases of the spring. We found
This Turkey Tuesday is about something that can happen to us turkey hunters while out in the spring woods – we stumble onto a nest or a hen on a
This Turkey Tuesday is about managing for turkeys versus white-tailed deer. In some ways, the old adage “what’s good for deer is good for turkeys” misses the mark. Deer are
This Turkey Tuesday is about plumage variations, a topic that arises each turkey season as we encounter birds with abnormal feather colors. Wild turkeys have several color variations, those being
This Turkey Tuesday is about cranky hens and relationship breakups. With breeding season in full swing across the South, and right around the corner elsewhere, hens start distancing themselves from
Chamberlain says that hunters should think about turkey population dynamics like a football team. Each important factor is a different position. Brood rearing habitat would be the quarterback, for example.
The Hunting Public meet up with Dr. Chamberlain to see how the project they helped get funded via social media is going.
We quantified relationships between gobbling activity, predation risk from hunting activity, and risk from coyote activity. We found that distance to access points used by hunters on public lands most
Nothing triggers a turkey hunter into fitful dreams and self-imposed sleep deprivation like bushy beards, lusty gobbles and limb-hanger spurs. However, some parts of a turkey’s anatomy—beaks, feet, legs and
Talkin’ Turkey Ep 39 Dr. Mike Chamberlain (Wild Turkey Doc) joins hosts Brittany French and Rob McDonald to talk turkey. We’re going to cover the state of turkeys, what’s happening across
This Turkey Tuesday is about odd colored beards and the myth about beard rot. First, beard rot does not exist, there is no such condition in wild turkeys. Rather, the
This Turkey Tuesday is about predation on adult wild turkeys – in this case, from great-horned owls. When you think about predators that kill adult wild turkeys, you often think
This Turkey Tuesday is about the stunning array of colors and tones that toms display on their feathers. These brilliant colors are actually caused by light refracting off feathers, rather
This Turkey Tuesday is about latitudinal variation, or lack thereof, in gobbling activity from one portion of a state to another. With breeding season about to be upon us in
This Turkey Tuesday is about the amazing array of things wild turkeys eat, which is on full display in summer. Research has shown that what
This Turkey Tuesday is about the importance of the feathering on the head of hens. When we think of a turkey’s head, we often think
After a 2-week hiatus so I could chase turkeys instead of post about them, this Turkey Tuesday is about broods and how their behavior changes
This week Dr. Mike Chamberlain drops in and we discuss a variety of topics. Mike updates us on the extensive research his team is doing
This Turkey Tuesday is about a wild turkey’s eyes. Every turkey hunter knows that turkeys have keen vision, and that vision is the bird’s primary
This week we tell all about some turkey misses we remember that haunt us to this day. We’re joined in studio by Dr. Michael Chamberlain,
In this Tom Opre film, we explore the enigmatic world of the Osceola turkey and the singular habitats where it lives. Threatened by habitat loss,
We took a new approach to estimating home ranges for Rio Grande hens, basing our estimates solely on where birds were in the reproductive phases
This Turkey Tuesday is about something that can happen to us turkey hunters while out in the spring woods – we stumble onto a nest
