I know that some states band their birds prior to releasing them into new areas, or if they are doing research in that area. I've been fortunate to take 4 banded toms---3 in Oklahoma, and another in Florida. In addition to a leg band, my Osceola was also sporting the latest in fashionable turkey attire---wing tags, and a radio pack on his back. This old warhorse was also blind in one eye, had recovered from a broken wing, there were numerous old pellets of different sizes in his hide, and at some point in his rough life he'd gotten tangled in bailing twine, because some of it was still wrapped tightly around each leg. The antennae had broken off of the radio almost a year earlier, so the Game & Fish personnel were thrilled that I'd killed him and they could then include nearly two years of previous data from this tom in their study.