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”
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
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,
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
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
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
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
This Turkey Tuesday is about the spring shuffle – soon, winter flocks of toms will start splitting up as tensions rise prior to the beginning
This Turkey Tuesday is about optimizing use of green forage plots by wild turkeys. During fall and winter, turkeys will often use open areas planted
This Turkey Tuesday is about how turkeys deal with snow and other winter weather extremes. Although severe winter weather can and does result in mortalities
This Turkey Tuesday is about turkey talk. When we think about the vocabulary of the wild turkey, gobbling obviously comes
This Turkey Tuesday is about how adept wild turkeys are at obtaining food when it starts to become limited in
We assessed with exploratory analyses if weather during or prior to nesting predicted whether nests would be successful. We found
This Turkey Tuesday is about the development of behaviors in wild turkeys, which often seem to resemble what we think
This Turkey Tuesday is about what we’re learning about Gould’s wild turkeys, the most poorly understood subspecies. Gould’s are found
We examined habitat use of Gould’s wild turkeys, the most poorly understood subspecies. We found that Gould’s strongly selected for
This Turkey Tuesday is about being a true omnivore – meaning you eat both plants and animals. Wild turkeys are
This Turkey Tuesday is about how to improve the quality of forage plots planted for deer, only from a turkey’s
This Turkey Tuesday is about how important fall is to wild turkeys as they prepare for winter. With fall upon
This Turkey Tuesday is about gobbles – in this case, how they differ as you move from one subspecies and
This Turkey Tuesday is about gobbling – in this case, during the fall well before breeding season approaches. When us
With deer season now on the brain, we hit up one of our favorite mature buck nerds, Dr. Mike Chamberlain
We examined recursive movements of broods, which are movements back to areas they’ve previously used. We found that ground roosting
We monitored broods during the first month after hatching to determine how their selection of habitats changed as they aged.
This Turkey Tuesday is about growing up – in this case, the transition from being a jake to being an
This Turkey Tuesday is about covering your tail, or in popular slang, the ole CYA! Like other birds, wild turkeys
This Turkey Tuesday is about the spring shuffle and the old saying of “here today, gone tomorrow”. Wild turkeys are
This Turkey Tuesday is about roosts and the fact that some are more important than others. Roosts are critical to
