Originally Posted By: crenshawco
Matt, on a statewide level, how would you rate the nesting success over the past 2 or 3 years?

Same question to you Brandon in the years leading up to the decline in your area


We don't really monitor nest success. We do a statewide poult recruitment survey in the summer to get a poult:hen ratio. It's declining statewide. South AL is still holding pretty close to 2 poults:hen. We like to see it at that level or higher. Other areas of the state are seeing less than 1.5 poults:hen. That is not very good. And it appears a significant percentage of hens are either not nesting at all or losing their first nest and not attempting a second. The radiotelemetry and gps study should help us understand nest success better.