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Title: California fish and game
Identifier: californiafishga40_2cali (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: California. Dept. of Fish and Game; California. Fish and Game Commission; California. Division of Fish and Game
Subjects: Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons
Publisher: (San Francisco, etc. ) State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game
Contributing Library: California Department of Fish and Game
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124 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME until 1951. A total of 3,062 turkeys were released and 311 eggs were distributed for hatching. Seventy-one different sites in 23 counties were thus stocked, in a total of 118 distinct releases. The locations of the release sites are depicted in Figure 1 and details are summarized in Table 1. The birds used in these plants were, with one important exception, raised and released by the state game farms, principally those at Yount- ville and Los Serranos. Due to the extreme difficulty of raising birds of pure wild ancestry in captivity, the game farm stocks of turkeys were of hybrid origin, resulting from crosses between the domestic turkey and one or more of the wild subspecies. Apparently the latter were mainly the Mexican turkey (Meleagris gallopavo gallopavo) and the Merriam turkey (31. g. merriami) of the Southwest. In any event, all of the birds released, up to 1949, were actually semidomestic hy-
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FIGURE 1. Distribution of the 71 sites where wild turkeys have been released in California since 1928.

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