YTHPR7007 - Wild Turkey Commander

Course Description

Do you want to learn what makes wild turkeys tick and learn to imitate their language? In this class, you will be introduced to the life history of the largest North American game bird and follow the important events in a year in the life. Indispensable habitat requirements of wild turkeys will be discussed and you will collect important summer foods much as a feeding wild turkey might. We will cover the history of wild turkey populations in Pennsylvania and learn of the economic importance of our rich wildlife resources. You will be introduced to some of the tools wildlife biologists use to capture and study wild turkeys and have a chance to use a radio telemetry receiver to plot azimuths (compass bearings) and map the location of a radio-tagged animal on a topographic map. We will locate the remains of a wild turkey and its nest to theorize what might have happened to the bird. Finally, we will discover the language of the wild turkey and learn how successful hunters call wild turkeys.