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Re: Fun with Turkey Numbers
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04/16/24 07:36 PM
04/16/24 07:36 PM
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There’s something like 15 different kinds of hawks and owls in Alabama…..If a hawk, owl, bobcat, or coyote will target a rat it will target a young turkey poult………Somewhere there’s a study that talks about how each different raptor tends to be honing in on targets in certain diameter size ranges such as a golf ball or baseball or softball ……That’s what their eyes are searching for…..It wouldn’t matter to them if it was a gopher rat or a young turkey poult
I imagine when they’re little bitty then pretty much anything would target a turkey poult but as they get bigger then the pressure probably shifts more to just the bigger hawks and owls and bobcats…There’s lots of different predator species that are going to target poults along the way though and the majority of those have base diets revolving around rodents as their main food source…..I read one land managers first hand account from the Chattahoochee Valley that said he observed red tail hawks being a significant predator of poults……
Yep, and MOST of those are insignificant. Red-tailed, Red-shouldered and Coopers are the most numerous throughout the State. Red-tailed is consistently reported as a small mammal predator. Red-shouldered are similar but also feed on amphibians and reptiles. Coopers are quite simply bird hawks. They eat birds and prey on little else. A simple literature review (or observing them in the wild) will verify this consistently and over and over. It has little to do with prey size other than Coopers prey center on Jay/cardinal sized prey and Sharp-shinned prey on mockingbird/sparrow sized prey. Coopers like to chase birds, catch them and eat them. They do it efficiently, all year, and in all life cycles and the young are fed birds in the nest. Prove me wrong. The number one predator of quail and turkey poults is coopers hawks. Will "a hawk, owl, bobcat, or coyote target a rat it will target a young turkey poult", yep. Only one is efficient at catching them - Cooper hawks. The rest are highly unsuccessful. Its a LOT easier to catch a rat or mouse, squirrel or rabbit than a turkey poult, especially one that flies. Thats why bird hawks specialized in birds.
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