Turkey Tuesday
Need For Speed
This Turkey Tuesday is about the need for speed – or perhaps the better saying is speed kills. As turkey hunters, we’ve all matched wits
November 15, 2022
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This Turkey Tuesday is about the need for speed – or perhaps the better saying is speed kills. As turkey hunters, we’ve all matched wits
This Turkey Tuesday is about the need for turkeys to keep an eye on the sky. Wild turkeys have keen vision that allows them to
This Turkey Tuesday is about the importance of agricultural crops to wild turkeys during fall and winter. Throughout much of their range, wild turkeys most
This Turkey Tuesday is about personalities – in this case, continued evidence that how toms behave can be highly variable from one bird to the
This Turkey Tuesday is about turkeys fighting – in this case, within groups of jakes. The knockdown, drag out fights that we often think of
This Turkey Tuesday is about dispersal, who does it, and when. Natal dispersal (when young birds leave their first home range) is not well understood
This Turkey Tuesday is about finding ways to estimate the size of a wild turkey population. For decades, we’ve lacked an understanding of how many
This Turkey Tuesday is about dusting and molting, 2 things that go hand-in-hand during late summer. Dusting is an activity all turkeys do, but late
This Turkey Tuesday is about the consistency of breeding and nesting efforts in wild turkey populations. I’ll often hear us turkey hunters talk about the
This Turkey Tuesday is about later hatched poults, which many of us see in late summer. These pictures show poults that are nearly the size
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
