It is an interesting and fun project. I have several groups of gobblers that I am working right now hoping to get more coming in before we start the actual trapping process.

One gobbler we banded, in my district last winter, was harvested nearly eight miles from where we banded it. It seems that especially the gobblers will travel a long ways to get into suitable wintering habitats and then move back into what was probably their old home range again when spring arrives.

R.S. Bodenhorn