[BCNnet] oops, Wild Turkey

Fri, 06 Feb 2004 16:12:57 -0600

The larger question still remains  ?What happens if the reintroduction is successful and becomes a deer problem? One must assume that any attempt at reintroducing turkeys to remaining suitable habitat will be successful. What is the management plan? Who, how and when will turkeys be "harvested" in the future? Just a thought.

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>>> "Ryan Chew" <ryanwc@msn.com> 02/06/04 01:02PM >>>
I would only add to Steve Packard's list of turkey predators, based on a 
quick web search.

Owls, bobcats, coyotes, foxes, and 'other avian predators' (probably 
identified from pellets whose source couldn't be narrowed down, but 
presumably hawks) all turn up.  And these studies were on predation of adult 
wild turkey.  Poults would attract a wider variety of predators.

This doesn't sound like a white-tailed deer situation.  We should have 
plenty of predators.

Ryan Chew
www.chicagoriverpaddle.com 

>From: ralph eiseman <r18btbw@sbcglobal.net>
>To: Bcnnet <bcnnet@ece.iit.edu>, Randi Doeker <rbdoeker@aol.com>
>Subject: [BCNnet] oops, Wild Turkey
>Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 07:28:07 -0800 (PST)
>
>Sorry, I should have done my homework.
>E. R. Ford in his Birds of the Chicago Region (1956)
>lists the EASTERN TURKEY with many early records,
>pp.32 - 33. My only concern might be that without
>natural predators or a hunting season, they might
>overpopulate ala the W-T. DEER.
>
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