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Successful turkey hunters must immediately tag their bird before moving it from the harvest site and are required by law to report the harvest to the Game Commission.
Hunters, by law, must report harvests within 10 days.
Reporting harvests is key to turkey management, as it allows the Game Commission to more accurately estimate harvest and population totals.
Hunters can report turkeys in any of three ways:
n by visiting [http://www.pgc.pa.gov"]http://www.pgc.pa.gov" TARGET="--blank www.pgc.pa.gov and clicking the blue "Report a Harvest" button near the top of the home page;
n by calling 1-800-838-4431;
n by filling out and mailing the harvest report card in the digest hunters get when they buy a license.
Have your harvest tag in front of you when reporting to be sure you can provide all of the requested information.
Hunters also are asked to report any turkeys they harvest with leg bands. Information collected on those birds --which are legal to take -- helps estimate spring harvest rate and annual survival rate by Wildlife Management Unit, Casalena said. That's critical to developing the state's turkey population model.
Leg bands feature a toll-free number or email address for reporting.