Ricky Lackey & Nick Bakner talk how many nests are burned in prescribed fires, based on a database of 600-700 nests, & why turkeys tend to nest in areas not scheduled to be burned. Pt 2 of our Turkey Symposium goes live Thurs. at 1pm ET. Don't miss it! youtu.be/eCESved-fqg

Check it out ⬇️. The Applied Wildlife Ecology & Spatial Movement Lab is hiring 2 research crew leaders and 2 research technicians for our upcoming wild turkey research project in Nebraska with Nebraska Game and Parks and Mike Chamberlain! Feel free to share this announcement. Thanks! Nebraska SNR Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources University of Nebraska CASNR University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Brood Rearing | Mike Chamberlain explains the scientific data he has gathered to help better understand habitat conditions hens prefer when raising poults and what we can do to improve that habitat. TONIGHT AT 9:00 PM (ET) | Outdoor Channel

Looking for a fun, awesome summer job? Come join our team! We are looking for five technicians to join our team here in North Dakota to search for, and monitor, grassland bird nests. Applications received by January 15th will receive full consideration, so apply today! Susan Felege

And we're off! The Nebraska wild turkey project has hit the ground running. So far, our team has deployed GPS transmitters on 51 birds (on our way to 120 total). Stay tuned for more updates! 📷: Nebraskaland/Nebraska Game and Parks

New short communication in Food Webs by myself and Kevin Ringelman. We used modified trail cameras to observe wood duck nests and found red-bellied woodpeckers depredate and consume eggs when nests are unguarded. authors.elsevier.com/a/1gtp48MrlBCx…

Everyone go check out the new website. A lot of our archived literature and more!

Please RT: New PhD student position studying white-winged dove ecology in Texas with me and TPWD. Lots of banding and GPS-GSM tags + opportunities to do resource selection across an urban gradient, study disease, contaminants, harvest, and migration.

After the first two weeks post-hatch, turkey poults begin to behave like adults, including vocalizations. One of our field techs caught these poults calling while in the field. You can hear several vocalizations from the poults, including yelps, clucks and whines. 📷Kayli Newkirk

Putting the finishing touches on our custom PyTorch machine learning algorithm that automatically enumerates and speciates ducks from drone imagery! LSU Research LSU AgCenter Ducks Unlimited National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

Please share widely! We are hiring a graduate student for our wild turkey research project focused on spatial ecology! Nebraska SNR Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources University of Nebraska CASNR University of Nebraska-Lincoln @WLFWildlife The National Wild Turkey Federation Wild Turkey Report Mike Chamberlain Nebraska Game and Parks Patrick Wightman Nick Bakner

Calling all 🦆 people! I’m hiring waterfowl technicians to collect field data for my Master’s project. Come on down to Louisiana and work with Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks, Wood Ducks, and Hooded Mergansers! Kevin Ringelman LSU AgCenter Dylan Bakner

My brother and I defended our dissertations! I’ve accepted a postdoc at URI and Nick Bakner at Tennessee Tech. We couldn’t have done this without the support of our family, friends, and PhD committees. Proud of you Nick!

Enjoyed discussing TWRA sponsored mallard research with Mike Brasher, PhD 🦆 on the Ducks Unlimited podcast. Stay tuned for more #duck research and convos coming soon! Abby Blake-Bradshaw Cory Highway Bradley Cohen Nick Bakner

We’re hiring field techs for our wild turkey research project for 2025. See below for more info! The National Wild Turkey Federation Nick Bakner Mike Chamberlain wildturkeylab Nebraska Game and Parks Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources Nebraska SNR Nebraska Extension University of Nebraska CASNR University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Please share with anyone who might be interested in joining our research team at URI For more information or to apply, visit: jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id=9….

Undergrad thesis from Katie Miranda published today! Traditional monitoring methods dramatically underestimate duckling recruitment in cavity-nesting waterfowl Ogden Honors College Jonathan Earle is @jonearle.bsky.social nature.com/articles/s4159…