I also wonder about what happened to the turkeys in Caswell, especially southern portion. I drive hundreds of miles in that county every week, saw only 3 hens in 2021. Habitat has not changed as I can tell. There is a lot of hunting and trapping of nest predators relative to other countries (maybe not like in the fur boom). So I wonder about hunting pressure and illegal hunting pressure too
Every year I read on this site about how the Turkey population is declining and something needs to be done, but yet I still see all the harvest photos from some of those same people killing 2 a year .
I can tell what’s hurts them around here if it’s not predators, hay production. I try to be careful but I ran over a nest yesterday and found a raided nest.