Wild Turkeys - Maintenance and Management
Maintenance of wild turkeys includes activities that preserve natural conditions and preclude the destruction of the natural habitat. Certain land management practices include forest growth control and creating openings (hayfields, pastures) to provide suitable environment for grass and insects, which are crucial to brood-rearing.
Interconnections between wild and pen-turkeys are best precluded, because catchy diseases and parasites can be easily transmitted to wild turkeys, which seem to be even more susceptible to infection. Interbreeding may also generate serious genetic deviations among wild species.
Illegal hunting hampers wild turkey population management. In highly hunted areas gobbler survival ranges 40 to 50 %. Cooperation between landowners, hunters and conservation officers can reduce the rate of illegal killing of wild turkeys. The results are only as good as efforts on the part of those involved in management. Gating of roads is another effective measure.
There must be area where lots of tiny stones and solid particles can be found. A turkey's stomach has a section called 'gizzard', in which these stones and particles are contained. Their function is to grind food to promote proper digestion.
Wild turkeys can be domesticated. That can not be done without special permission. That is because of the danger of crossbreeding with traditionally domestic breeds, which is fraud with epidemics and likely undesired genetic impact on wild turkeys.
While domestic turkeys can be held in stalls, wild turkeys should be kept in cages to prevent escape by flying away. A breeder must also have an incubator. Home conditions are not always suitable for wild turkeys, and that may cause females to refuse to sit on the eggs.
Wild Turkeys - General Information Links
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Wild Turkeys Found Dead - Wild turkeys found dead - questions remain. Something had killed nearly a whole flock of wild turkeys
Beauty and the Feast - Wild Turkeys - Beauty and the Feast - Wild Turkeys - by Randy McGovern.
Brainerd Dispatch: Outdoors - Keeping the 'wild' in wild turkeys. Releases by DNR, National Wild Turkey Federation have led to a huntable population in recent years.
Calhoun's Guide Service - Profile of guide services for trophy bass fishing and hunting of wild boar, waterfowl, whitetail and turkeys in Florida.
Division Relocates Wild Turkeys to South Jersey - Through these cooperative
efforts, wild turkeys can be found in 20 of New Jersey's 21 counties."
Eastern Wild Turkey Fact Sheet - Wild turkeys are very similar to the domesticated subspecies; however, wild turkeys are slimmer, have a smaller head, and have a longer neck and body.
Florida State Chapter - NWTF - This local chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation supports scientific wildlife management on public, private, and corporate lands. Membership information.
Forest Management for Wild Turkeys -. Roads that are closed with locked gates are important for protection of wild turkeys.
Landowner's Guide: Wild Turkeys - Before the first settlers arrived in Michigan, wild turkeys were established mainly in the southern part of the state.
Massachusetts Wild Turkey - Between 1914 and 1947 there were at least four unsuccessful attempts made by MassWildlife to restore wild turkeys to Massachusetts.
McMurray Hatchery - Wild Turkeys - We sell the Eastern strain of wild turkeys.
Meet Your Neighbors - Fall 2003 - Wild Turkeys: Gobbling Gizzards of Steel. In the last few decades, wild turkeys, Melagris gallopavo, have been making a comeback in the Chicago Wilderness.
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Meleagris - Gallopavo - Details about this bird's wildlife distribution, biological data, and habitat requirements
National Wild Turkey Federation - All About Wild Turkeys. The Wild Turkey's Range (click map to enlarge) Wild Turkey Species and Subspecies: Range Map
Nesting Behavior of Wild Turkeys - When a hen turkey is looking for a nest site, she avoids all other hens.
New Jersey State Chapter - NWTF - Information on the state and local chapters of the National Wild Turkey Federation, including: schedule of events, membership information, and contacts.
Non-Harmful Control for Wild Turkeys and Vultures - Wild turkeys have an incredible sense of sight and hearing. The Crop Gard PRO for tough bird problems like wild turkeys and vultures.
North Carolina Wild Turkeys - Since 1970, 5,367 wild turkeys have been released on almost 350 restoration sites across the state. Wild Turkeys Released.
Return of Wild Turkeys - Life History. According to most accounts, wild turkeys
were quite abundant at the time of European colonization of North America.
Scoring Wild Turkeys - Lucky turkey hunters often wonder how their trophy stacks up against other turkeys. The National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) has an official wild turkey records program.
Wild Turkeys - Osceola County is home to two types or subspecies of wild turkeys.
Wild Turkeys - These beautiful Merriam Wild Turkeys. Zak's Gamebird Farm & Hatchery. Wild Turkeys.
A Salute to Wild Turkeys - A salute to wild turkeys. During the turn of the century it was estimated that only 50,000 wild turkeys existed in the entire nation.
American Wild Turkey Foundation - AWTF was established to create, preserve, maintain and acquire lands suitable for the wild turkey and other wildlife.
Animal Aid : Factory Farming : Wild Turkeys Factfile - Wild turkeys are found in South America and live in small groups in open forest, feeding on insects, seed and fallen fruit.
Animal Facts: Turkeys - Wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) live in woods in parts of North America and are the largest game birds found in this part of the world.
Animal Tracks - Wild Turkey - Wild Turkeys. Meleagris gallopavo silvestris.
Wild Turkeys - Other Wild Turkeys sites
Wild Turkeys - Wild turkeys currently belong to the few animal species that are not in jeopardy of extinction. However, at the turn of the 20th century, over hunting and deforestation resulted in drastic decrease in wild turkey population. The situation persisted until the mid-twentieth century.
Soon after wild turkeys were reintroduced into their original habitat and later, their range extended over as much as 65% of the US territory. In the old days, Indian tribes hunted and domesticated wild turkeys. In the 16th century the Spanish brought the bird to Europe.
