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, here we are again ready to talk about some bolts.

So, Ava, we are glad to have you on the show.

I think your name has been mentioned in several different contexts, but you are the field coordinator

overseeing the field work with the Pult facility. So we thought it would be really valuable

to have you on and give you an opportunity to tell people other things about that. I know we've

covered some things, but folks are messaging us a lot, telling us they want to hear

more and more and more about it.

And I can understand why they'd feel that way, because that's the way I feel about it.

And, you know, I think it's fun to talk about all the cool things that are going on and things are changing fast.

So we should have plenty of opportunity to do that.

So thanks for coming to talk to us about that.

I know you have just met Will,

so maybe I'll turn it over to Will and let you start how you'd like will yeah thanks for coming on eva again

nice to meet you um from talking to marcus i understand that you were involved in you know other

similar types of bird research before coming to the pulp facility so i want to start out by

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