The wild turkey subspecies are inherently challenging, incredibly alluring and unique in their own way. Each of the five subspecies display different physical and behavioral characteristics that define them. Get the on each subspecies below:. Eastern wild turkeys are the most widely distributed subspecies east of the Mississippi River. They are also the most abundant. In fact, you can find them in 38 states and numerous Canadian provinces.
The Florida wild turkey also referred to as the Osceola gets its name from its location. There are about , of them in Florida today. The birds will make the most of whatever they have and somehow they find a way to withstand winter.
If you provide enough food on your ground, you stand a better chance of keeping the turkeys home and healthy, and keeping your neighbors happy. Just be conscientious and careful how you go about it because like deer, turkeys can quickly become dependent on you for survival when fed supplementally.
All things considered, turkeys are much easier to manage than deer. Make sure they have a sufficient amount of the proper habitat variables, which is typically the case on most managed and many unmanaged properties. Keep the predators down, time your mowing and burning to avoid nesting periods and manage your harvest rates to avoid over-exploitation. The turkeys will take care of the rest themselves. They even do a pretty good job of limiting harvest by outwitting us more often than not.
Bob Humphrey is a wildlife biologist who participated in the first modern turkey hunt in Massachusetts in Later he assisted with turkey translocation efforts in Maine and in became the first per-son to officially record a wild turkey Grand Slam with a crossbow.
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Just like whitetails, turkeys love edge habitat, and many things you do to help whitetails will also benefit turkeys. Here you see the stomach contents of a recently harvested gobbler - lots of acorns, some berries, grubs, green grass shoots, and it even looks like there are three 4 shot pellets.
Spring Spring means green-up, an increasing abundance of herbaceous greens. Summer At the risk of sounding like a tourism brochure, summer is the time of plenty, when nature abounds with life. These turkeys are native to the Rocky Mountains, clustering among forests of ponderosa pine. The back feathers of this subspecies are white-tipped. During the winter months, the turkeys will move down the mountain slopes to avoid snow, then return during the spring to feast on dropped seeds.
The turkey was named after C. Fish and Wildlife Service. The largest of the subspecies, this turkey can only be found in Arizona, New Mexico and northern Mexico. Its feathers are copper-colored with a greenish tint. They frequent small underbrush, commonly found along dry creek beds. While this turkey inhabits a dryer climate than the other subspecies, it manages to subsist on a diet of insects, berries and seeds, scavenging wherever possible.
While each of these varieties of turkey may have slightly different habitat, one thing remains constant: To support a wild turkey population, the landscape needs to have vegetation.
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