Welcome to Wild Turkey Science, a podcast made possible by Turkeys for Tomorrow.

I'm Dr. Marcus Lashley, Professor of Wildlife Ecology at the University of Florida. And I'm Dr. Will Gulsby, Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Management at Auburn University.

We're both lifelong hunters and devoted scientists who are passionate about hunting,

managing, and researching wild turkeys.

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.

Our goal is to serve as your connection to wild turkey science.

Well, it kind of looked like you just put a big old cicada in your mouth

have you tried them yet this is good enough for the turkeys is good enough for me

i uh i grilled some cicada bobs last night not not uh not very good yeah we've been talking about this big hatch coming since last summer

and it's here you know we were just talking about before we went live that uh i was on a property

a little north of the tallada national forest yesterday and they were deafening. Yeah. Protein packets everywhere.

Oh, yeah.

Well, I also want to reiterate again.

I'm excited about it because if we see an increase in productivity,

we know that part of the productivity problems at least are linked to insect abundance,

and we can affect that

through habitat management yeah we know that pretty well and it's probably going to be relevant to

some of the things we talk about today with pilot management yeah yeah so that's definitely one of the

biggest pieces of listener feedback that i feel like we've gotten over the past few months especially

from that survey.

And thanks again to everybody that completed that, but it was clear that everybody wanted to hear more about habitat management topics.

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