Ny,Pa and Ohio land owners
01-25-2009, 05:08 AM
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Ny,Pa and Ohio land owners
Saw this in our local paper if you can help out give your local DEC office a call.
Joint turkey study continues
Field notes / Dave Henderson
New York's Department of Environmental Conservation is implementing a statewide winter flock survey as the first step in the final field season of a large-scale wild turkey research project.
The first project is a turkey banding program, being done in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Game Commission, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, researchers from Pennsylvania State University, and the National Wild Turkey Federation. The second project is a statewide winter flock survey. These studies will provide information that biologists need to guide future management efforts.
The banding program has begun with DEC staff and cooperators from NWTF launching a statewide effort to capture turkeys and fit them with metal leg bands bearing a toll-free phone number for reporting. The objective of the banding study is to examine hunter harvest rates, turkey survival rates, and harvest reporting rates across the state. Banding will be done on public and private lands north of New York City through March.
Last year volunteers banded a total of 352 gobblers and 303 hens, increasing the three-year total to 1,031 gobblers and 1,056 hens in 51 counties and 148 towns. Through the first three field seasons Pennsylvania Game Commission and Ohio Department of Natural Resources have banded 904 and 618 gobblers, respectively.
A total of 149 of the banded gobblers were reported shot by hunters during New York's spring season, which includes 71 birds banded in winter 2008, 64 banded in winter 2007, and 14 from winter 2006. Another 10 were harvested by hunters last fall. Most birds were killed within five miles of where they were banded, but some birds banded during the study have moved at least 20 miles from where they were banded.
Landowners, hunters, bird watchers or others interested in participating can report their observations of turkey flocks (even a few birds) from January through March to the project coordinator for a particular DEC region, or they can download or print a winter flock survey form from the DEC Web site.
The DEC is also looking for landowners who will allow birds to be trapped, banded, and released on their land. Turkeys will be trapped and banded and will immediately be released at the same location. No birds will be transplanted.
The regional manager for Region 7 (Broome, Tioga, Chenango, Cortland, Tompkins, Cayuga, Madison, Onondaga, Oswego Counties) is Lance Clark. He can be reached at 753-3095 or by mail at 1285 Fisher Ave., Cortland, N.Y. 13045.
Joint turkey study continues
Field notes / Dave Henderson
New York's Department of Environmental Conservation is implementing a statewide winter flock survey as the first step in the final field season of a large-scale wild turkey research project.
The first project is a turkey banding program, being done in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Game Commission, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, researchers from Pennsylvania State University, and the National Wild Turkey Federation. The second project is a statewide winter flock survey. These studies will provide information that biologists need to guide future management efforts.
The banding program has begun with DEC staff and cooperators from NWTF launching a statewide effort to capture turkeys and fit them with metal leg bands bearing a toll-free phone number for reporting. The objective of the banding study is to examine hunter harvest rates, turkey survival rates, and harvest reporting rates across the state. Banding will be done on public and private lands north of New York City through March.
Last year volunteers banded a total of 352 gobblers and 303 hens, increasing the three-year total to 1,031 gobblers and 1,056 hens in 51 counties and 148 towns. Through the first three field seasons Pennsylvania Game Commission and Ohio Department of Natural Resources have banded 904 and 618 gobblers, respectively.
A total of 149 of the banded gobblers were reported shot by hunters during New York's spring season, which includes 71 birds banded in winter 2008, 64 banded in winter 2007, and 14 from winter 2006. Another 10 were harvested by hunters last fall. Most birds were killed within five miles of where they were banded, but some birds banded during the study have moved at least 20 miles from where they were banded.
Landowners, hunters, bird watchers or others interested in participating can report their observations of turkey flocks (even a few birds) from January through March to the project coordinator for a particular DEC region, or they can download or print a winter flock survey form from the DEC Web site.
The DEC is also looking for landowners who will allow birds to be trapped, banded, and released on their land. Turkeys will be trapped and banded and will immediately be released at the same location. No birds will be transplanted.
The regional manager for Region 7 (Broome, Tioga, Chenango, Cortland, Tompkins, Cayuga, Madison, Onondaga, Oswego Counties) is Lance Clark. He can be reached at 753-3095 or by mail at 1285 Fisher Ave., Cortland, N.Y. 13045.
01-25-2009, 07:46 AM
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RE: Ny,Pa and Ohio land owners
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
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