What predictions do you have for the hurricanes destruction of the wild turkeys in Florida and Georgia?

Lucky Clucker

Lucky Clucker

Old Mossy Horns
I hate to see such a big storm hit almost to the day that Hugo came on land and destroyed so much turkey habitat. I hope the local flocks in NC. Fair well,winds and flooding ,downed trees.Seen where Georgia has a decline in turkeys as of recently, this won't help.
 
Jimbob78

Jimbob78

Twelve Pointer
Lucky Clucker said:
I hate to see such a big storm hit almost to the day that Hugo came on land and destroyed so much turkey habitat. I hope the local flocks in NC. Fair well,winds and flooding ,downed trees.Seen where Georgia has a decline in turkeys as of recently, this won't help.
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Or will it create new habitat? Downed trees means more sunlight to the forest floor which results in new growth.
 
Jimbob78

Jimbob78

Twelve Pointer
QBD2 said:
The habitat isn’t really the concern for the turkeys. It’s surviving the storm.
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True, if they are no longer with us, the habitat improvement doesn’t matter, but I have wondered what it is like to be them, or any other wildlife, during one of these storms. What are the ducks, deer, geese, quail, squirrels, etc doing? The biggest explosion of turkeys I’ve seen in my lifetime has been post Fran and Floyd.
 
Hunterreed

Hunterreed

Twelve Pointer
Can a turkey stay roosted in a tree during tropical storm force winds or are they sitting ducks for the coyotes overnight?
 
QBD2

QBD2

Old Mossy Horns
ScottyB said:
How about Osceola’s in Nc…. Just thinkin outside the bottle…. I mean box
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NC is full of them. Or FL is full of easterns. To-may-to to-mah-to.

Genetically they are identical. The differences are habitat driven. That’s why you see ‘Osceolas’ regularly come from the low country from SC to Mississippi.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Genetic variation across the historical range of the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) - PubMed

Genetic differences within and among naturally occurring populations of wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) were characterized across five subspecies' historical ranges using amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analysis, microsatellite loci and mitochondrial control region sequencing...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 
ScottyB

ScottyB

Old Mossy Horns
Contributor
QBD2 said:
NC is full of them. Or FL is full of easterns. To-may-to to-mah-to.

Genetically they are identical. The differences are habitat driven. That’s why you see ‘Osceolas’ regularly come from the low country from SC to Mississippi.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Genetic variation across the historical range of the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) - PubMed

Genetic differences within and among naturally occurring populations of wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) were characterized across five subspecies' historical ranges using amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analysis, microsatellite loci and mitochondrial control region sequencing...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Well damn- who knew!! Guess it’s like “Helium” ….. just gots to identify like you want to be and dress the feathers up a little!
 
turkeyfoot

turkeyfoot

Old Mossy Horns
Like most it's not a one simple answer like back during that one hurricane that was bad in SC it really hurt the Frances marion for while made it more of nasty mess than was bird numbers did drop but wasn't that far away that numbers increased so yeah they'll be some regional impact at least short term but overall they'll just keep on doing their thing. Gotta suck though be a tree roosting bird in a storm like that.
 
turkeyfoot

turkeyfoot

Old Mossy Horns
Hunterreed said:
Can a turkey stay roosted in a tree during tropical storm force winds or are they sitting ducks for the coyotes overnight?
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I can't say about a big storm but I do know in really windy rain they will lean to roosr lower limbs in pines where available in mtns.
 
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