Official Alabama Game Bird
Wild Turkey
Photograph from: Alabama Conservation Magazine
The wild turkey is one of the most common game birds in the United States. In
the
early 20th century turkeys became rare in Alabama due to over-hunting. The
Alabama
Game and Fish Division of the Department of Conservation and
Natural Resources
started a wild turkey restocking program in the 1940s.
Now, Alabama has one of
the largest per-acre populations of wild turkeys of
any state in the United States.
Alabama Governor Lurleen Wallace once shot a 15 lb. turkey.
Sources:
Act 80-734, Acts of Alabama, May 28, 1980
Alabama Conservation Magazine
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