Welcome to the Jay Scott Outdoors Podcast, guys. I've got Mike Chamberlain, Professor Mike Chamberlain from the University of Georgia, Wild Turkey Doc on Instagram.

I've had you on the podcast before Mike, I'm glad you were able to come back on with us. Welcome.

So I'm glad. Yeah, go ahead and be with you, Jay.

I want to dive right in. The guys that are listening you know obviously with the

coronavirus and all the stuff that's hitting there are a few people out there that are

able to get out in Turkey hunt you know around their homes and around their hometowns and what have you so I want to

cover some turkey topics a few of the things well I want to cover a bunch of

different topics today one of them I want to cover is your studies or

studies that have been done on pressure on birds and some of the different things that you've seen scientifically, biologically

biologically that makes turkeys do things or change their patterns because of pressure,

whether it be human pressure, predation, but I want to concentrate if there are some studies on how birds react to human pressure

Yeah, sure so we have done quite a bit of work on how birds respond to hunting pressure and most of that work was was

basically for lack of a better words. We gps everything. We put GPS units on the birds. We

ask hunters to carry GPS in their packs and we program the units on the birds to collect

constant locations and we program the units that the hunters have to collect constant locations and then we basically just download all the data and see how birds are interacting with humans and how they're responding to hunters.

And what we've seen is pretty much the take home is

there's no such thing as an average home.

They all have unique ways of dealing with pressure.

If you kind of had to pigeon hold it, there are three potential outcomes that we see.

One, the bird dies obviously is one outcome.

If they don't they either hunker down and

change the way they behave ranging from everything, don't gobble as much, if at all, don't move much, don't range very

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