RE: Preferred roosting trees
Red maples, sometimes over wet areas, sometimes not, and to a lesser degree oaks. Usually about 3/4 of the way up the tree.
The limbs they roost on are usually pretty small. I think it may let them feel a predator like a coon better than a larger limb. Just a guess though.
Come to think of it, I would like to see a coon try to kill a roosted turkey.