Interesting, wonder if there were any studies conducting on their behavior vs. native wild species.
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Pretty sure they made an effort to mix and match the turkeys released at restoration sites to insure closely related birds weren't the only ones there. Meaning that a site might have birds from several different places in NC as well as out of state. I think I recall Mike Seamster, former wrc turkey biologist, commenting that the gobblers from Wisconsin were a bit bigger by a few pounds than native gobblers but that likely disappeared in a generation or two.