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Originally Posted By: 1cdog
Any thoughts on the effect that large concentrations of Turkeys have on Quail that are trying to live on the same property?


Turkeys will eat anything smaller than them if it moves. Quail biddies are like jelly beans...Geo

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I've heard that before. I've visited with game bird biologists here who say that any quail that are eaten are consumed by accident, that the turkeys don't look for quail chicks to eat. Skunks and raccoons are a lot harder on quail. Several years ago there was a guy who wrote in to the Kansas Wildlife and Parks magazine complaining that the introduced turkeys were displacing the native pheasants. Of course the contention is false, but beyond that, the pheasant was an introduced game bird and the turkeys were the natives.

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I don't think the issue is so much the killing/eating of quail chicks but the scratching around and eating of unhatched quail eggs.

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I don't know how many quail the turkeys get, but I've personally witnessed them "bugging" through a grass field. They take insects, spiders, and lizards for sure. If a hatch of little quail were in there, they'd look just like bugs...Geo

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They probably eat some chicks, I've never witnessed it. But, I have witnessed those white cattle egrets wiping out a whole brood of quail chicks. Those snake-necked long-legged things will eat anything they can swallow. I've seen them swallow a rat whole that was so big they couldn't move for half hour until it made it down that long neck and into the gut. They will encircle a big timber rattler and hold court over him until they decide how to kill him. I have seen that several times. Quail chicks have a tough row to hoe, around here, to survive these days. Between the hawks, the feral cats, the fire ants, the snakes, the cattle egrets and the turkeys, just to name a few, a grown bob has absolutely beat the odds in Georgia.

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Stan, speaking of egrets, the gator pond where Floyd lives presently has hundreds of nesting Great Egrets, aka Great White Heron. The fuzzies have been hatching. In the next few weeks a succession of waders: Snowy, Louisana, Tricolor, Night Herons and Anhingas will nest there including the Cattle Egret towards the end. Yesterday while in the turkey woods, I came up on this smaller rookery of Great Egrets. There were hatchlings in a few nests. The photography is on par with my turkey hunting this season.

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Tell Floyd I said to please advise the anhingas not to come back my way after nesting. They are unappreciated here, IYKWIM.

There is a seafood restaurant in Screven Co. a couple miles off 24, that has a pond by it. There is a large tree at the back end of it where cattle egrets roost every night, by the thousands. Late each evening it looks like a huge cotton plant that has had defoliant and boll opener sprayed on it. I'd hate to have to walk around under it barefooted.

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I generally hunt in the evenings for 30-45 minutes and rarely shoot more than one bird for the table. The last day of the pheasant season, Annie, my EB was working a mixture of Multiflora Roses and Reed Canary Grass. I was on high ground and couldn't see her, but could track her progress by the sound of her bell and the movement from the tops of the grass.
After her bell went quiet and the grass quit moving, I waited. I was about to throw a rock into the tangle when Annie bolted out the cover and ran along the edges for about 25 yards and then dove into the heavy stuff, but this time she was coming to me.
Her bell sounded for a few seconds and then all was quiet and I could see her head and shoulders in the Multiflora Roses. She was in a classic pointing stance, left leg up and what I could see of her body was stretched out towards the hidden bird, but this time she facing the opposite direction from her original point. Our eyes met and we had an instant understanding.
As I stood there with a smile on my face the rooster cackled and went airborne. I shot and the bird folded, dead in the air.
I asked Annie to fetch and as soon as I said it I knew there was going to be a problem. The fence that she had to go through is a very tight 7 strand barbed wire fence with only about 6" of space between the wires.
She was able to get through the fence and scooped up the bird. Getting back was difficult with the bird in her mouth. She managed and added a few more rips to her vest, delivering the bird to me with tail buzzing.
Annie was not just hunting, but " Hunting To The Gun," the epitome of a working bird dog.
We had the rooster for Thanksgiving.
While the pic is not very good photography, I will always remember her performance.
The gun is a #2 AyA and the brass hull is a RMC 2 3/4" 16 Ga..


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Jim, sometimes I'm a little slow interpreting acronyms. "EB"? From your pic I can't tell whether your dog is a French Brittany or an English Cocker. I presume Brittany since she pointed the pheasant. If "EB" was what you meant to type, what is that?...Geo

Nice story and pic by the way!

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EB= Epagneul Breton? Its native name?

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