Hunting the Turkeys of Mauna Kea
Feb 01, 2022
2 minutes
by Richard Hoeflinger
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ecords indicate that the first turkeys were brought to Hawai‘i from Coquimbo, Chile, by Capt. John Meek in 1815. They were of undetermined type, but the introduction was successful, particularly on the island of Hawai‘i, where several thousand were harvested annually. While several different strains of
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