Nov 12 2020 Georgia Wildlife, Hunting, Research Wild Turkey Reproduction Quiz by Georgia DNR, Wildlife Resources Division 1 Comment How much do you know about the turkey “birds and the bees”? Test your turkey trivia with this quiz on the big game bird’s breeding behaviors. Photo credit: Richard McCree. Wild Turkey Reproduction Quiz1. Which of these seasonal changes are the primary trigger for turkeys to begin breeding behavior in the spring? Increase in temperature Increase in day length Onset of buds and leaf growth in roost trees 2. True or False: If you hear toms gobbling and see them strutting in February, that means hens are already getting bred. True False 3. Most hunters know jakes can’t successfully breed hens. Is this because: Jakes don’t even try to copulate with hens Hens just don’t dig the younger guys Jakes don’t produce viable sperm 4. True or False: It’s opening day and you hunt a field with 3 longbeards and a couple hens. You harvest the most dominant gobbler. The hens will mate with the remaining adult birds right away. False True 5. You may have heard the term “predator swamping” when hunters and biologists talk about predator effects on young game animals. What does this term mean? If all the turkey poults hatched this spring are able to fly up and roost in trees by early summer, more of them are likely to survive to the next spring. All of these. When all the does drop their fawns at about the same time, it puts so many prey items on the ground at once that some survive just because the predators can only eat so many in a short time. Having lots of little critters at the same time means they all get big enough to escape predators at about the same time, forcing predators to switch to other more easily captured prey items. 6. What is the percent chance that a given turkey nest will successfully produce at least one surviving (lives to day 28) poult? 50% 7% 23% Share this:TwitterFacebookEmailPrintLike this:Like Loading... Related
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Well I got 2 out of 6 so I definitely learnt something – thanks! Haha