Banded Turkeys

[HogBiologist]

Never killed a banded turkey, but put a many on birds.  We are still banding for our gobbler mortality study.

[Basser69]

Yeah shootum; he got the radio back (the antennae had broken off about a year earlier, so they'd lost contact with this tom), but I kept the wing tags and leg band, plus they sent me a copy of the data recovered in the study.

Hookspur, That is way too cool. I would love to see a copy of the data sheet. Just curious to see what all they look at other than locations.

[outlaw]

in VA i toke two in the 90s got 20 bucks for each band dint know if they still do it

[FLGobstopper]

I killed one in 2004 on a WMA in central Florida. He was a good old bird to with some razor sharp hooked spurs. I'd scouted that bird for weeks and saw him through the bino's strutting in a field and that he was banded. I made up my mind I was going to spend the entire 4 days on him if I had to. On opening morning he gobbled over 100 times on the roost (more than any Osceola I've ever killed) and finally flew down from his big ol' pine tree and ever so slowly strutted over to me and died at about 18 steps. I think I remember every detail of that hunt, it was a fine morning to be a turkey hunter.

[WNY Bowhunter]

I killed one during the 2008 season...

[ddturkeyhunter]

Yeah shootum; he got the radio back (the antennae had broken off about a year earlier, so they'd lost contact with this tom), but I kept the wing tags and leg band, plus they sent me a copy of the data recovered in the study.

Hookspur, That is way too cool. I would love to see a copy of the data sheet. Just curious to see what all they look at other than locations.

In 2009 when I was trying for my first Osceola turkey at Three Lakes WMA in Florida they were doing a turkey tracking research study. I got to know the people doing the tracking because I had found and shown them a Swallow Tail Kite nest. Any way I road around with him one afternoon all over that management tracking them turkeys. If you could get the results of that study ( It was a three year study and finished last year) I think you would find a lot of interesting things in there. I know after the third day one hen had traveled out of her home range on the north boundary line and ended up on the south boundary line, he had a heck of a time finding her. He though the movement was caused just because of all the pressure of people every where. I know it sounded like it was a very thrall research project and a lot of work he only did it one year because of that. It was interesting just talking to them one day, and no it didn't help me shoot a turkey that year but it did help me understand there movement a little better. I shot one the second year.

[doublebeard]

My 12 year old daughter took a double bearded banded turkey in 2008 on her first youth hunt in NY.

[SR1]

A good friend of mine killed a banded hen with gps pack on her back in PA. The band was worth $100 and it was the first one I had herd of in a very long time. WNY Bowhunter was that bird taken in 9R here in WNY? The tag looks like it says that if so you got it in my neck of the woods.

[Devastator]

the game commission trapped and banded a bunch here in pa. awhile back and some of the tags were a 100 bucks if you called them with the band info.

[WNY Bowhunter]

A good friend of mine killed a banded hen with gps pack on her back in PA. The band was worth $100 and it was the first one I had herd of in a very long time. WNY Bowhunter was that bird taken in 9R here in WNY? The tag looks like it says that if so you got it in my neck of the woods.

Actually, I killed this bird in 8R.  Guess I'm a little east of you...

[chrisun]

Not yet, but I would love too.