![]() Audubon (1831) said it is used as a signal to fly across a river, but in the same book, he said it means that food has been found. There is ambiguity in literature about the cluck. Most plain clucks are rendered at intervals of two to five seconds, but occasionally a turkey will cluck so rapidly that the sounds resemble slow cutting. The call is used mainly to attract the attention of another turkey. The median pitch of a typical adult hen’s cluck is also the loudest call. Hunters should expect to hear an array of plain yelping variations, including longer renditions that begin with one or two clucks.Ī plain cluck is a single loud staccato note. However, adult gobblers can also make very high-pitched plain yelps. ![]() Gobblers yelp slightly slower and lower and sometimes with a hollow tonal quality. A good model is four or five quick notes at moderate volume, even rhythm and reasonably high pitch. The notes of a typical plain yelp are evenly separated and are usually at the same pitch and intensity. In the rules of turkey courtship, a sexually receptive hen goes to a gobbling male. The plain yelp is used during all seasons, by both genders and all turkey age classes except poults. Plain yelp: The plain yelp of the hen has been referred to as a love call, but the implication that it’s a mating call is not correct. It’s equally useful in spring hunting because loud calling can be heard farther than softer calls, and gobblers consider lost hens as sexually appealing as they do hens that aren’t lost. The call is useful in fall hunting to call turkeys after a flock has been scattered or to attract the interest of any turkey in the woods that’s seeking company. Lost yelping has excellent direction-finding qualities and is used by adult and older young turkeys to assemble after being separated from the flock. The gobbler’s yelping has a hollow character and is seldom raspy. Lost yelping by an adult gobbler is lower-pitched and of slower rhythm than lost yelping by a hen. A good model would be six to 10 very loud yelps at the same pitch in a steady rhythm. The louder and longer notes and the greater volume and longer calling series sometimes give the impression of desperation by the caller. Lost yelp: The typical lost yelp is longer than a plain yelp, with one to 20 or more notes. You can hear those calls if you listen closely. Bona fide tree yelps cannot be heard far beyond the roosting area, but when tree yelping gives way to louder yelping, much of the vocabulary of the wild turkey can be heard at the roost before the flock flies down. The message conveyed by a tree yelp is, “I’m here, are you still there?” Sometimes, every turkey in the flock will answer the roll call with a brief, soft yelp. The call has a nasal quality because it is made with the turkey’s bill closed or nearly so. Tree yelp: The tree yelp is the briefest of the yelping calls a three- to five-note series of yelps given as a flock awakens in the morning on the roost. A plain yelp is usually louder than a tree yelp but not as loud as a lost yelp. The lost yelp is a loud yelping call used for assembly by turkeys separated from their flocks. Tree yelps are soft yelps made on the roost as turkeys awaken in the morning. The difference is only because of the context in which they are used. We can separate and name those yelping calls based on their functions, but there are a few yelping examples we cannot distinguish by sound alone. The three best-known yelping calls are the tree yelp, lost yelp and plain yelp. Yelping is a generic call of the wild turkey. You should use the use kee-kee and kee-kee run for fall calling. Jakes often use the unique four- or five-note kee-kee run. By fall, a jake’s calling apparatus is larger than that of a young hen, and his voice is distinctly lower-pitched. A gravely distressed young turkey might go from kee-keeing to yelping and back several times in the same kee-kee run sequence. ![]() One common variation begins with kee notes, followed by yelping notes and ending with additional kee notes. Long examples have more than 30 yelp notes, but briefer examples might have only one to three yelps. The kee-kee run is just a kee-kee with yelping added on the end. There is little difference in tone or rhythm of kee-kees by young male and female poults, but as turkeys grow older, a jake’s voice becomes lower in pitch. It stems from the lost whistle of a young poult. The kee-kee is a call young turkeys develop in summer. Three male turkeys size each other up and gobble loudly to attract the attentions of some females nearby. ![]()
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