Upland Gamebird Exam #1 Review

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Across
  1. 5. The number of animals produced that exceed the carrying capacity of the habitat.
  2. 6. The term that describes how chicks are fed by the mother hen for the first 3-4 day after hatching
  3. 8. The term that refers to removing all trees in an area of land.
  4. 9. The premise that each animal killed by hunters is and additional death that adds to the overall mortality rate.
  5. 10. The term that refers to a seedling/spling forrest.
  6. 12. The father of wildlife management.
  7. 14. The concept that most animals produce more young than necessary to maintain the population, therefore removing these individuals with hunting will not affect the population.
  8. 18. This term refers to is the observed process of change in the species structure of an ecological community over time.
  9. 20. The species of turkey that is found primarily in the Ponderosa Pines and western mountain regions of the U.S.
  10. 22. Game that inhabits non-cultivated land, compatible with forestry and livestock operations, and has a cruising radius of 5 miles or more.
  11. 23. the concept that an inverse relationship exist between productivity and abundance. Therefore a population reduced by hunting will be more successful.
  12. 26. The concept that as prey population goes down in Canada and Alaska when the predator population goes up in the great lakes.
  13. 28. the concept that hunting is self-regulated because as the season progresses, hunter numbers and success rates decrease.
  14. 30. The type of food that comes from trees and makes up 50-70% of the turkeys diet in the fall and winter months
  15. 32. The term that refers to land that provides breeding, nesting, brood-rearing, and fall habitat all within 40 acers.
  16. 33. The species of turkey that is native to the central plain states and has tail and covert feathers that are tipped with tan or yellowish- buff.
  17. 34. The differences in appearance between males and females of the same species.
  18. 35. Ideal turkey habitat in which it consist of herbaceous ground cover of 90%, average canopy height of 20 inches, and overhead or nearby tree cover of 10-50%.
  19. 38. Know as the “blackhead disease,” and is caused by protozoan parasites.
Down
  1. 1. The species of turkey that is the largest of the subspecies with longer legs and larger feet.
  2. 2. The species of turkey that is found only in the peninsula of Florida and has tail feathers and coverts that are tipped with a chestnut brown color.
  3. 3. Juvenile hens that move 2 to 3 times as far as adults, over 20 miles from winter home ranges.
  4. 4. The concept that mortality resulting from hunting will be compensated for by a reduction in mortality from other factors such as predation or weather.
  5. 7. Game that requires the absence of farming, grazing, and forest management.
  6. 11. The turkey species in which both male and females are bronze-green with no difference in breast feather colors, has no bread
  7. 13. The term that refers to an animal that eats both plants and animals.
  8. 15. The term that refers to the fleshy protrubances that hang over their bills and can be extended or contracted at will.
  9. 16. The term that refers to sitting on or brooding the eggs of birds to hatch them.
  10. 17. A physical trait that allows upland birds to be able to walk on snow as if they had snowshoes.
  11. 19. Game that makes annual long or short distance movement between breeding and non-breeding ranges.
  12. 21. Game that requires cultivated land, non-migratory, and has a short cruising radius of less than 1 mile.
  13. 24. The species of turkey that is most widely distributed, abundant, and hunted in the U.S.
  14. 25. The term that refers to a life of little to no physical activity, spending a lot of time seated.
  15. 26. The term that refers to a clear-cut area where male woodcocks performs mating rituals.
  16. 27. The term refers to when all grouse eggs hatch within 24 hours of one another.
  17. 29. Harvest information program
  18. 31. A disease in turkeys that is transmitted primarily by blood-feeding arthropods
  19. 34. When male ruffed grouse advertise their presence and define their territory, peaks in spring and fall.
  20. 36. Provides cover and from predators and brood habitat in the winter months.
  21. 37. Small tree seedlings that make great brood habitat in the winter months.