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Re: wolves and turkeys
« Reply #15 on: February 15, 2019, 01:11:25 PM »
On wolves eating turkey, perhaps young wolves dispersing and out alone would target and put the sneak on a turkey,  I've never seen evidence of it happening  :dunno:

I've found lot's of dead turkeys from bobcat, yote and cougar....cougar take the most that I've found personally.  Owls and hawks taking the young birds. 

never seen a wolf track at a turkey kill



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Re: wolves and turkeys
« Reply #16 on: February 15, 2019, 04:49:33 PM »
Can't speak to wolves, the very first telemetry study I worked on was a turkey nesting ecology study.  Our #1 source of mortality on nesting hens was coyotes.  Bobcats are really good turkey killers.  So are great horned owls (on the roost).
As long as we have the habitat, we can argue forever about who gets to kill what and when.  No habitat = no game.

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Re: wolves and turkeys
« Reply #17 on: February 16, 2019, 06:37:40 AM »
I believe it on a nest.  Heck you can walk up to em and wack em if you wanted to.     

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Re: wolves and turkeys
« Reply #18 on: February 16, 2019, 03:48:17 PM »
I've watched Golden Eagles dive bomb winter flocks of turkeys.  The sound of several turkeys doing an alarm putt is loud!
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Re: wolves and turkeys
« Reply #19 on: February 27, 2019, 09:25:32 AM »
On several occasions I have witnessed bobcat and coyote take turkeys. Coyote in my experience tend to try and do more of a sneak mode. Similar to a bobcat, but more clumsy. From what I have witnessed with wolves, when they attack, they do it in a group. Coordinated attack in the open. No sneaking involved. And they try to wear down their pray. I am thinking a turkey is not going to stay around and wait for that. I also witnessed a Golden eagle snatch a ton right out of mind air. They tumbled to the ground. Wrestled around. The Tom got lose and dogs off the cliff they were wrestling and into a pile of blackberrys. I am thinking he died later? And if course it was the only day I did not have my cam...

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Re: wolves and turkeys
« Reply #20 on: February 27, 2019, 09:36:54 AM »
never seen a wolf track at a turkey kill

 :yeah:  I'm sure wolves will try, most predators will try to catch whatever is in front of them, I know numerous wolf areas that have quite a few birds, but never seen a kill that I thought was from wolf. Wolves seem to be more effective the bigger the prey is.

Eagles kill some adult birds as well as bobcats and coyotes. I'm sure mink and maybe even a fearless weasel might try to get in on the action too. In my area I'm completely convinced the single biggest predator impacting turkeys are ravens. Ravens are super efficient at finding nesting hens then diving and running the hen off the nest, the ravens then eat all the eggs. Ravens, owls, hawks, and eagles all impact small birds greatly.

There is a reason mother nature has hens laying 16 or so eggs. About the only thing lower on the food chain is insects and worms.
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Re: wolves and turkeys
« Reply #21 on: February 27, 2019, 11:55:26 AM »
Hunting the NE last year at day break, we sat and listened as several wolves howled back and forth across 2 very small ridges. Each howl brought numerous gobbles from several turkeys below in the meadow we were set up in. One tom in particular appeared to gobble his way up to damn near the exact spot the howling was coming from. I have much of it recorded on audio.

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Re: wolves and turkeys
« Reply #22 on: February 27, 2019, 09:09:09 PM »
a new turkey call to try...
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Re: wolves and turkeys
« Reply #23 on: February 27, 2019, 09:41:36 PM »
Hunting the NE last year at day break, we sat and listened as several wolves howled back and forth across 2 very small ridges. Each howl brought numerous gobbles from several turkeys below in the meadow we were set up in. One tom in particular appeared to gobble his way up to damn near the exact spot the howling was coming from. I have much of it recorded on audio.
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Re: wolves and turkeys
« Reply #24 on: February 27, 2019, 09:48:23 PM »
and a G20 sitting in a GFI chest holster  :tung:

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Re: wolves and turkeys
« Reply #25 on: February 27, 2019, 09:53:32 PM »
We've had coyotes blast into our decoys twice.

Two years in a row in the same meadow..

The first time the coyote absolutely nailed the decoy.

The second time, not so much.

I imagine a wolf would try.....
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Re: wolves and turkeys
« Reply #26 on: February 28, 2019, 01:52:07 PM »
When coyotes come to turkey calling I tell my hunters to shoot them, might have to be careful now that wokves are everywhere around Colville and Kettle!
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Re: wolves and turkeys
« Reply #27 on: February 28, 2019, 01:55:25 PM »
When coyotes come to turkey calling I tell my hunters to shoot them, might have to be careful now that wokves are everywhere around Colville and Kettle!

Yeah, you might have to be careful that your clients know how to keep their mouths shut.

 


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