As we know there is an elevated interest in wild turkey science within the turkey hunting community, we are working to bring you numerous updates and research summaries from the 13th National Wild Turkey Symposium in Kansas City, Missouri.

This episode includes a conversation with the presenter from the following paper included in the "Tools to Estimate Survival" session:

"Evaluating camera survey methods for estimating wild turkey abundance" — Buckley et al (Presented by Nick Bakner) (https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wsb.1643)

Additional guest includes Kyle Hand, Statewide Game Bird Specialist for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

While we were not able to sit down and have further conversations with all presenters or authors from the session about tools to estimate survival, please check out the following research papers:

"Comparison of methods for estimating wild turkey poult survival estimates" — Quehl et al. (https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wsb.1617)

"A framework for analyzing wild turkey sighting data" — Diefenbach et al. (https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wsb.1623)

To view the full symposium agenda, visit www.wildturkeysymposium.org.