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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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The chance that this was a real Turkey are not great, and the chance that Columbus actually brought breeding stock from Honduras to Spain is not great, so maybe, maybe not. Early Holocene Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) Remains from SOUTHERN Utah: Implications for the Origins of the Puebloan Domestic Turkeys. Newbold, Bradley, et.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

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Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. Asides Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Utah Birders has a copy of Hawks at a Distance to give away. There are 400 whooping cranes left in the wild, 100 of them in the eastern population.

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