tude dog wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 1:38 pm Turkey Information
Wild turkeys were reintroduced into Kansas in the 1960s, and the program has been a great success. Today, huntable populations of turkeys exist in nearly every county. The Rio Grande subspecies dominates the western two-thirds of the state. Low numbers in the southwest provide only limited hunting. Hybrid Rio Grande/Eastern birds are found in the northcentral region. The Eastern subspecies is common in the northeast and far southeast regions, where numbers have grown tremendously in recent years.
We will, of course, differ on whether cultured nations would allow the hunting of wild populations of any vertebrate species, whether the resulting dead animal is subsequently eaten or not. I might, for example, allow such killing for subsistence, but I don't imagine that's a major factor, and even then I'd exclude endangered species. Subsistence, before anyone asks, means for those at need, it does not mean for those who choose to eat parts of the resulting carcass as an excuse, and it seems impossible to me that anyone living in a cultured nation would be so poor to begin with.
Britain, for example, allows wild fish to be killed for so-called sport. Fortunately most fish and birds killed in this way in Britain are in fact captive-bred to attract paying animal killers, and the dead animals were never wild in the first place, but they definitely took up space which could instead have been occupied by their wild brethren.