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Old 04-12-2008 | 06:12 PM
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Default RE: How far will Eastern Tom's travel??

In Wisconsin, they have used radiotransmitters and found some turkeys were harvested over 15 miles from where they were originally captured.

One bird went 5.8 miles in a 30-hour period, but most stayed close to the capture site.

One other thing I read. They also studied mortaility of those turkeys and here is what they found:

55% killed by hunters
6% killed by coyotes
3% killed by poaching (they think - could not be verified)
2% killed by cars
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