During a severe winter with deep snow turkeys will starve to death while standing in their roost trees. Up in their roost trees they have access an unlimited amount of browse (maple tree buds etc..) They can even fly from tree to tree when the snow is deep. Why do they fall out of the trees dead after two weeks? In the early 90's i found 12 dead turkeys under their roost trees. I guess they forgot to eat browse.