A cutting-edge study to examine the lives of Eastern wild turkeys has crossed the Sabine River from Louisiana into East Texas.
Louisiana State University (LSU) researchers with the cooperation of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department (TPWD) and help from the National Wild Turkey Federation are fitting Eastern turkeys with GPS collars to track their movements.
TF&G Editor-In-Chief Chester Moore got to document the first collaring in Texas with Chad Argabright, a graduate student at LSU overseeing the project in the field alongside TPWD biologists.
LSU graduate student Chad Argabright fits an Eastern turkey captured north of Lufkin with a GPS transmitter. (Photo by Chester Moore)
In this edition of Higher Calling Wildlife, Chester interviews LSU’s Dr. Bret Collier who has studied the birds in Louisiana for a decade.
Click to listen to the episode below.
In this show learn the following:
*The technology to track turkeys
*How the collars can track hens with poults in their feeding zones down to a 30 square foot area.
*Roosting habits of turkeys.
*Predation on turkeys-(key predators)
*The controversy of hog predation on turkeys. Are hogs really a direct nest threat?
*Reasons for decline of Eastern turkeys in many Staes & much more.
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