Managing for gobbling habitat | #112

Wild Turkey Science

Charlotte Nowak

Natural Sciences, Science

5.0 • 587 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

We continue the gobbling activity conversation as Will walks us through the available research on the complex dynamics between habitat management, gobbling activity, and the overall health of turkey populations. We explore the significance of early successional cover, the impact of vegetation composition on gobbling rates, the challenges of researching gobbling, and our upcoming research that can help address some of these questions. If you haven't listened to Part 1 of this episode, we recommend listening to Episode 111 before returning to this episode.

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Chamberlain, M. J., et al. (2018). Gobbling activity of eastern wild turkeys relative to male movements and female nesting phenology in South Carolina. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 42(4), 632-642.

Grehan, Janelle, "Spring Gobbling Chronology and Turkey Habitat Use In Upstate South Carolina" (2022). All Theses. 3880.

Hoffman, R. W. 1990. Chronology of gobbling and nesting activities of Merriam's wild turkeys. Proceedings of the National Wild Turkey Symposium 6:25–31.

Kienzler, J. M., et al. 1996. Effects of weather, incubation, and hunting on gobbling activity in wild turkeys. Proceedings of the National Wild Turkey Symposium 7:61-68.

Lehman, C. P. (2005). Ecology of Merriam's turkeys in the southern Black Hills, South Dakota. South Dakota State University.

Lehman, C. P., et al. (2007). Gobbling of Merriam's turkeys in relation to nesting and occurrence of hunting in the Black Hills, South Dakota. In Proceedings of the National Wild Turkey Symposium. 9: 343-349.

Lint, J. R., Leopold, B. D., & Hurst, G. A. (1995). Comparison of abundance indexes and population estimates for wild turkey gobblers. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 164-168.

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Palumbo, M. D., et al. (2019). Latitude and daily-weather effects on gobbling activity of wild turkeys in Mississippi. International journal of biometeorology, 63, 1059-1067.

Pollentier, C. D., et al. (2021). Gobbling across landscapes: Eastern wild turkey distribution and occupancy–habitat associations. Ecology and Evolution, 11(24), 18248-18270.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Wild Turkey Science, a podcast made possible by Turkeys for Tomorrow.
0:14.4	I'm Dr. Marcus Lashley, Professor of Wildlife Ecology at the University of Florida.
0:20.3	And I'm Dr. Will Gulsby, Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Management at Auburn University.
0:26.2	We're both lifelong hunters and devoted scientists who are passionate about hunting,
0:30.8	managing, and researching wild turkeys.
0:33.5	In this podcast, we'll explore turkey research, speak to the experts in the field,
0:38.3	and address the difficult questions related to wild turkey ecology and management.
0:43.6	Our goal is to serve as your connection to wild turkey science.
0:53.7	So I saved the best for last, Marcus.
0:57.5	Okay.
0:58.7	This is one of my studies.
0:59.7	The effect of habitat on gobbling.
1:07.6	Okay.
1:08.7	All right.
1:10.1	I like it.
1:18.4	I'm assuming the habitat is probably related to density which is influencing gobbling that's my guess probably probably um so starting out kind of big picture, Palentier and others up in Wisconsin.
1:33.4	They published this paper in 2021, documented that there was, so this wasn't gobbling activity.
1:39.1	They were using gobbling to look at occupancy, which is essentially the probability that a site with a certain set of
1:45.9	conditions will be occupied by gobblers as indexed by gobbling activity.
1:53.0	So they found that that occupancy was greater in areas that had at least a moderate availability
2:00.5	of open cover types within a forest
2:04.5	dominated landscape.
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