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Something anecdotal has crossed my mind.
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<blockquote data-quote="poorhunter" data-source="post: 5597831" data-attributes="member: 16537"><p>I'd be very surprised if winter wheat fields had much of an impact, population wise, on wild turkey. I'd also be surprised if there was a significant difference in winter wheat acres planted now versus 5-10 years ago. The decline of the wild turkey is too widespread, in too many states, in all kinds of habitats. Something else is at play. I really don't know, and certainly there are lots of things at play in the decline, but something is happening, on a large scale, that is affecting brooding success for turkeys. I do not buy into the nest raider/habitat loss/coyote/raptor theories. While these all do take out turkeys, they have always been the major players, and they are not suddenly decimating turkeys. Of all those, the raptor theory has the most possibility, but I just don't think it to be the major reason. Same with the quail…as far as I have read about it, habitat loss due to the change in farming practices is given the blame for the demise of quail. I say horse-hockey to that. There's so much great habitat for quail all over this state. Especially compared to where I used to lived in southern Indiana, but I had quail around me there. Not like when I was a kid mind you, but there wasn't nearly a tenth of good quail habitat there as where I live here for quail. It's been a lot of years (30+) since I was involved with wildlife research, so I know I'm not in the know anymore, but there just seems to be something else going on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="poorhunter, post: 5597831, member: 16537"] I’d be very surprised if winter wheat fields had much of an impact, population wise, on wild turkey. I’d also be surprised if there was a significant difference in winter wheat acres planted now versus 5-10 years ago. The decline of the wild turkey is too widespread, in too many states, in all kinds of habitats. Something else is at play. I really don’t know, and certainly there are lots of things at play in the decline, but something is happening, on a large scale, that is affecting brooding success for turkeys. I do not buy into the nest raider/habitat loss/coyote/raptor theories. While these all do take out turkeys, they have always been the major players, and they are not suddenly decimating turkeys. Of all those, the raptor theory has the most possibility, but I just don’t think it to be the major reason. Same with the quail…as far as I have read about it, habitat loss due to the change in farming practices is given the blame for the demise of quail. I say horse-hockey to that. There’s so much great habitat for quail all over this state. Especially compared to where I used to lived in southern Indiana, but I had quail around me there. Not like when I was a kid mind you, but there wasn’t nearly a tenth of good quail habitat there as where I live here for quail. It’s been a lot of years (30+) since I was involved with wildlife research, so I know I’m not in the know anymore, but there just seems to be something else going on. [/QUOTE]
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