Wild turkey food habits in Florida.
Wild turkey food habits in Florida.
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佛罗里达州野生火鸡的饮食习惯。
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1956
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S. Schemnitz
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S. Schemnitz
A knowledge of food habits of the wild turkey, Meleagris gallopavo, was considered of importance in evaluating the effect of various changes in agricultural practices on large areas of good turkey range in Florida. One of these changes involves the conversion of vast acreages of cut-over pine flatwoods grazed by scrub cattle to improved pastures of perennial grasses for use by improved cattle breeds. A knowledge of turkey food habits would be of some value in choosing suitable areas for restocking wild-trapped turkeys. The value of artificial turkey feeders in the program of maintaining and increasing the present high level of the turkey population estimated at 45,000 birds (Anon., 1950) also needed evaluation. Considerable work concerning turkey food habits has been accomplished in Virginia (Culbertson, 1948; Mosby and Handley, 1943; May et al. 1939) and Alabama (Wheeler, 1948; Good and Webb, 1940); but for Florida and other southern states this information is largely wanting.