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, today it is my pleasure to introduce Dr. Jeff Hill.

He's a professor here at Auburn University.

I'm thankful to call him a colleague, even though we've got a few hundred meters separating our offices across campus.

But welcome, Dr. Hill.

Glad to have you here. Oh, yeah. Thank you. This is going to be, but welcome, Dr. Hill, glad to have you here.

Oh, yeah, thank you. This is going to be fun. Yeah, agreed. I'm really excited about this.

And we were talking about before the show started that I had gone through and looked at some of the things that you had published. And, you know, I of got a a handle on how much work you've done

on sexual selection and you know uh on birds specifically with plumage traits and that sort of thing

and ornament ornamental coloration you know various topics like that and i didn't see anything

specific to turkeys but then when we met a few minutes ago,

you told me about one of the, the turkey-specific projects you had worked on,

and I had actually read it and didn't connect it to you.

So I thought that was kind of funny that, you know, that I read that work, and I didn't even dig it up when I was looking. I mean, you, you know, that I read that work and I didn't even dig it up when I was looking.

I mean, you've contributed so much to the area.

I guess it's easy to miss individual things like that.

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