Tag: Population decline

Collaborative Research on the Future of Wild Turkeys

by David Lucas, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources  • 
For more than a decade, wild turkey populations across the southeastern United States have been in decline – in terms of both production/recruitment and overall numbers, all while the number of people hunting turkeys has been increasing. The Wild Turkey Reproductive Ecology research project is an effort to better understand the population dynamics of wild…  More 

For Nesting Least Terns, Water Levels Matter

by Stephanie Worley Firley, Eastern Threat Center  • 
Least terns (Sternula antillarum) are small water birds that nest along the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers and some of their tributaries, as well as coastal areas in the U.S. Monitoring the species began after the U.S. interior population of least terns was federally listed as an endangered species in 1985. “In the Missouri River basin, least…  More