Landscape level habitat corridor sustains turkeys | #158
Wild Turkey Science
Charlotte Nowak
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🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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In this episode, we discuss our recent paper quantifying turkey abundance, highlighting the Florida Wildlife Corridor and exploring how this project preserves turkey habitat amidst increasing development pressures. Paper will be linked as soon as it is released.
Resources:
Citizen science for turkeys (Ep 119) https://youtu.be/LEbFvaRhNKA
Scale of management for turkeys (Ep 156) https://youtu.be/2vIRBfFt-ls
Restoring the functionally extinct American Chestnut (Ep 157) https://youtu.be/ENrL86_i06g
eBird https://ebird.org/home
Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation https://floridawildlifecorridor.org/
FWC Summer Brood Survey https://myfwc.com/hunting/turkey/brood-survey/
iNaturalist https://www.inaturalist.org/
Merlin Bird ID https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/
Snapshot USA https://www.snapshot-usa.org/
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| 0:00.0 | The rapidly increasing human population is definitely of importance to Turks. |
| 0:08.0 | Right. |
| 0:09.0 | We have connected habitat within Florida that's approximately the same size as South Carolina, the whole state. |
| 0:16.0 | That's remarkable. |
| 0:17.0 | Certainly, the land could be managed better. Yeah. |
| 0:21.6 | For different objectives. |
| 0:22.6 | But they need land first and foremost. |
| 0:24.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:25.6 | But having no land is much worse than having land. |
| 0:28.6 | ...and... |
| 0:29.6 | ...werews than having land. |
| 0:32.6 | ...werewerew. Welcome to Wild Turkey Science, a podcast made possible by Turkeys for Tomorrow. |
| 0:43.3 | I'm Dr. Marcus Lashley, Professor of Wildlife Ecology at the University of Florida. |
| 0:49.3 | And I'm Dr. Will Gulsby, Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Management at Auburn University. |
| 0:55.4 | We're both lifelong hunters and devoted scientists who are passionate about hunting, managing, and researching wild turkeys. |
| 1:02.7 | In this podcast, we'll explore turkey research, speak to the experts in the field, and address the difficult questions related to wild turkey ecology and management. |
| 1:12.8 | Our goal is to serve as your connection to wild turkey science. |
| 1:36.0 | Okay. What makes it so much better is I can hear the little motor running in the background here. |
| 1:42.2 | All right, you ready to do this? |
| 1:47.6 | I think you've made your full transition into mad scientist now. |
| 1:48.7 | You're a mad scientist. |
| 1:54.5 | It reminds me of that movie, Austin Powers. |
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