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The Social Organization Of Wild Turkeys On The Welder Wildlife Refuge, Texas, Charles Robert Watts
The Social Organization Of Wild Turkeys On The Welder Wildlife Refuge, Texas, Charles Robert Watts
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This study is of the social organization of the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo intermedia Sennett) on the Welder Wildlife Refuge in southern Texas.
The earliest turkey nests hatched in April, with the peak of hatching a month or more later. These poults may remain with their mother until winter. This brood flock, however, often combined with other brood flocks to form composite brood flocks when the poults were a few weeks old. Hens not successful in rearing young combined into broodless flocks.
The juvenile males left the brood flocks in late fall or winter. They remained a distinct unit, …