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Table 1. Number (No.) of female wild turkeys within each social group
(S), number of nest attempts (n), number of first (1), second (2), third
(3), and fourth (4) nesting attempts, mean date of first nest initiation
(MeanInit) with associated standard deviation in parentheses, median
date of first nest initiation (MedInit), range of dates of first nest
initiation (R), mean number of days between first nest attempts (Days)
with associated standard deviation in parentheses, mean distance (Dist,
m) between each nest location and the centroid of 99% utilization
distributions 21 days prior to the first nest attempt on Kisatchie
National Forest and Peason Ridge WMA in west-central Louisiana, USA
during 2014–2019.