Ep. 379 | Boom to Bust - Research and Recovery with the Wild Turkey Doc

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🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Mike Chamberlain, aka “The Wild Turkey Doc,” is back talking about the plight of the wild turkey, fascinating research, and what people who care about these amazing birds can do to help. Mike is a top research biologist in his field and has been studying wild turkeys for more than 30 years. As a hunter, his passion for these birds is personal and professional. Tune in to get the most up to date information on population trends and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast, brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment, and good food.
0:15.5	What is up, everybody? Welcome back to the Vortex Nation podcast and welcome to our 2025 state of the Turkey Union. We've got Dr. Mike Chamberlain joining us again. And Mike, man, welcome. This is one that we're excited about. We're incredibly passionate about turkeys and turkey hunting and turkey
0:37.7	conservation here at Vortex. I know a lot of folks out there are as well, a lot of our listeners.
0:43.3	And man, we are just stoked to have you here to talk about, you know, the state of the wild
0:47.9	turkey union, you know, where things are at right now, you know, trials and tribulations,
0:53.3	things that turkeys are facing,
0:55.3	how people who care about turkeys can help, research projects you've been working on,
1:01.2	and stuff that you guys have going on at the Wild Turkey Lab. So that's a lot. I'm going to quit
1:06.3	talking, and I know we covered a lot of this on our previous podcast, Mike, but if you can just give us a brief intro and a rundown on what you do regarding turkey conservation, a little bit of background there, and then we'll jump right in.
1:21.2	For sure. Yeah. It's good to be with you, Mark. Yeah, so I'm Mike Chamberlain. I'm a researcher at the University of Georgia. I've been
1:29.3	studying turkeys for about the last 31 years. I did my graduate work, studying wild turkeys,
1:36.3	and I've been in academics for, gosh, way too many years, I guess, 25 years now and have been
1:43.2	conducting research on turkeys that entire time.
1:47.0	So it's a species that's near and dear to my heart.
1:50.0	And I'd say most of my current research is dominated by work on wild turkeys.
1:57.1	I mean, the wild turkey itself, and I'm sure we're going to touch on some things that we spoke about in the last podcast.
2:03.1	But, man, we're talking about an absolute, just one of the most phenomenal success stories that I've ever seen or actually been able to witness in my lifetime.
2:17.0	And it's crazy to think that in a lot of
2:19.3	areas, though, traditional turkey strongholds, they're struggling. I mean, in my life, Mike, I saw
2:25.3	turkeys in my home state of Washington go from novelty to nuisance for a lot of folks. I mean, you know,
2:32.8	they're like, oh, yeah, we saw wild turkey. And, like,
2:35.1	you know, you would never get permission to hunt there because it was just like, oh, gosh, we have like one or two
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