. The Canadian field-naturalist. Natural history. 3456789 10 Month (1=January, 12=December) Figure 1. Proportions of transmitter-equipped Wild Turkey mortalities attributed to Coyotes in 2000 (n=56). turn its head toward or make any sort of aggressive advance toward an alerted individual. The Coyote then continued at a walking pace into the river corridor. Many of the turkeys returned to feeding shortly there- after, and then followed as the flock slowly wandered off the bait area into the river corridor. Lone Coyotes have subsequently been observed using the same or adjacent parallel game tra
. The Canadian field-naturalist. Natural history. 3456789 10 Month (1=January, 12=December) Figure 1. Proportions of transmitter-equipped Wild Turkey mortalities attributed to Coyotes in 2000 (n=56). turn its head toward or make any sort of aggressive advance toward an alerted individual. The Coyote then continued at a walking pace into the river corridor. Many of the turkeys returned to feeding shortly there- after, and then followed as the flock slowly wandered off the bait area into the river corridor. Lone Coyotes have subsequently been observed using the same or adjacent parallel game trails through the bait area. Discussion As evidenced by these observations, we hypothesize that Coyotes are deterred from attacking Wild Turkey flocks. A major deterrent presumably is the ability of a turkey flock to mob Coyotes. Wild Turkey mobbing behavior was witnessed by Roilond and Brent Mc- Donald, two residents of Morton County, Kansas (per- sonal communication). They witnessed a turkey flock mob a lone Coyote that attempted to attack an individ- ual within the flock. The occurrence took place on the north edge of the riparian corridor of the Cimarron River, several years prior to, and approximately 10 km southwest of, the above observations. Several turkeys joined in the behavior, and they concluded that the Coyote had been physically injured in some manner before it retreated. Our observations of Coyote behavior near flocks of turkeys differ markedly from an observation of a lone Coyote that approached a single turkey at Fort Riley Military Base. Kansas. On 9 May 1998, Irwin Hoogh- eem (personal communication) stopped his automobile at 11:()() to watch a lone Coyote crossing a soybean field along the eastern boundary of Fort Riley Military Base. The Coyote, wearing a radio-collar, was part of a family group that commonly hunted around the field; it was trotting toward a lone turkey feeding among young soybeans that were 10-12 cm high. The Coyote suddenly ran directly at
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