They banded some toms up here with a few getting $100 dollar rewards for the ban being returned. The $100 reward was stamped in the tag. It made me smile when on youth day a youth hunter had gotten one of them. What a way for the lucky youth hunter to be rewarded! Others that were banded just had the basic bans on them.
They also have put tracking devices on some of the birds to help keep track of there movements. They tracked one tom that traveled over 50 miles during it’s breeding cycle. So some cases you simply don’t have any idea on where or when they will pop up at. This information also tracks them as to where they winter at during the winter months. Without the big farmlands and feeders this information is quite valuable for our wild turkey population..