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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野生火鸡,Meleagris gallopavo的饮食习惯的知识,被认为是重要的,在评估农业实践的各种变化对大面积的良好的火鸡范围在佛罗里达的影响。这些变化之一是将灌木牛放牧的大片砍伐的松树林转化为改良的多年生牧草牧场,供改良的牛品种使用。了解火鸡的饮食习惯,对于选择合适的地区重新放养野生火鸡是有价值的。人工火鸡喂食器在维持和增加目前估计为45,000只火鸡的高水平火鸡种群的计划中的价值(Anon.,1950年,也需要进行评估。在弗吉尼亚州(卡伯特森,1948;莫斯比和汉德利,1943;梅等人,1939)和亚拉巴马州(惠勒,1948;古德和韦伯,1940),已经完成了大量关于火鸡饮食习惯的工作;但是对于佛罗里达和其他南部各州来说,这方面的信息基本上是缺乏的。
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.