7th Annual National Wild Turkey Symposium - 1995
Missouri Wild Turkey Population was 370,000 in 1994.
Missouri has the 2nd Highest Wild Turkey Population
The Symposium
was held at Rapid City, South Dakota - 24-26 May 1995
Proceedings have been published for all of the Symposia, and except for the second, they are cited as a series. The second Symposium was published by the University of Missouri Press in 1973 and titled "Wild Turkey Management, Current Problems and Programs."
Copies of all National Wild Turkey Symposia, including the second, can be obtained from the National Wild Turkey Federation, Edgefield, South Carolina
I recommend everyone start requesting copies.
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Information from the 7th National Wild Turkey Symposium in 1995 from these states and countries South Dakota, Wisconsin, Virginia, Indiana, Georgia, West Virginia, Mississippi, Missouri, Mexico and Guatemala.
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MISSOURI
Generalization of results from a particular study need to be made with caution, especially when harvest management decisions are being made.
Missouri Ozarks cause-specific mortality, eastern wild turkey, harvest.
IO-year study is to provide estimates of survival and cause-specific mortality of radio-marked wild turkeys on two study areas in the Missouri Ozarks.
Peck Ranch Conservation Area (PRCA) and South Study Area (SSA).
The study was conducted on two study areas in the southern Missouri Ozarks: the Peck Ranch Conservation Area (PRCA) and the South Study Area (SSA). The PRCA is a 9,187-ha area in the northwest corner of Carter County, Missouri, except for 32 ha in Shannon County.
Furthermore, spring harvest information indicates that after a series of poor production years, spring harvest in the southern Missouri Ozarks declines more than in northern Missouri, because fewer adult gobblers remain in the population.
Both hens and gobblers were killed by predators during all seasons. Evidence at kill sites indicated that owls (presumably great horned owls [Bubo virginianus] ) and bobcats (Lynx rufus) were the major predators.
In this study, predation caused, on average, 68% of the hen mortality on the two study areas
In this study, legal harvest accounted for 30% of the adult gobbler mortality, and predation accounted for 51% of the mortality.
This study also demonstrated both gender- and study area-specific differences in the relative importance of the causes of mortality. Predation accounted for less mortality in gobblers (51%) than in hens (68%).
In this study, average harvest rates of radio-marked adult gobblers during the spring gobbler season were 18.7 and 22.3% on the PRCA and SSA
These differences suggest that although average annual survival rates might be generalized to a larger area, survival rates during a given year and the timing and relative importance of the various causes of mortality are specific to the population (area) being studied. The data from this study, when compared with that from the northern Missouri study (Vangilder and Kurzejeski 1995), also suggest that the timing and relative importance of the various causes of mortality are specific to the area being studied.
Generalization of results from a particular study need to be made with caution, especially when harvest management decisions are being made.
The 7th Annual National Wild Turkey Symposium - May 24-26, 1995 - 299 Pages
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