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Woodcock survey · 04-02-2022, 08:41 PM

Harold could you elaborate on the decline of turkeys. I have been a bit of an amateur pathologist since college and my interest has always been plants in that is how i made my living but have seen a lot of new diseases and insects over the last 10- 20 years. Our crow population succumed to west nile in 2 years time 20 years ago and has not come back.

Read of a disease(virus) in the Hudson valley in New York that halved the deer herd last year. Spread by no-seeums and high fatality rates. Very interested to know what is affecting turkeys in that the area i hunt in Maine they dissapeared in a years time.

edgarspencer · 04-02-2022, 11:43 PM

Dan, they say when all life, as we know it, will be gone, the cockroach will still be here. I'm beginning to believe the dam ticks will too.

Dean Romig · 04-03-2022, 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Daniel Carter

Our crow population succumed to west nile in 2 years time 20 years ago and has not come back.

Dan, they all relocated to Lawrence Ma. where as many as 25,000 are reported to roost on the roofs of the old mill buildings every night.

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Woodcock survey · 04-03-2022, 10:09 AM

I have seen the films of that. That is all there is though, we used to have winter roosts of a few thousand in many locations in south east Ma. and i hunted the areas but they are gone now and the numbers are so small i have a hard time shooting a few.

The ticks will get blood from the rats that survive on cockroaches and ticks.

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