In this discussion, the verdict has been passed on the guilt of turkeys (and the sloth of turkey hunters, cf. ed good's post on the despicable turkey hunter vs. the REAL hunter).

As I have said before, getting data to make those sorts of claims is darn hard. It is also expensive. If it exists, I'm unaware of it, but I have not looked hard for it either. In the meantime, it seem extremely unlikely that turkeys could or would be a significant source of mortality for quail for a whole host of reasons.

Seems like it wasn't too long ago that coyotes were The Problem for quail decline. What happened to that? Now it's turkeys. Tomorrow we will be back to whitetails.