The State of Georgia (or maybe it was one of the Island owners)once stocked Chachaloca on several of the barrier islands just off the GA coast as a pheasant substitute. They hung on for many years, but I think are about gone now.
GA soil or weather can't support a pheasant population and we've never had any. Due to public demand, the State has tried a number of substitues. Red Jungle Fowl were once stocked around a fish hatchery in the southern part of the State near the town of Fitzgerald.
Unfortunately, who ever sold the birds that were stocked must have pulled a fast one, and the State got bantam chickens instead of wild jungle fowl. The bantams all migrated to the Town of Fitzgerald and are still there, nurtured and fed by the townspeople. They even have a "Wild Chicken Festival" there every year. Whenever I travel through the area I drive through the residential neighborhoods just to see the chickens.
Maybe Destry will have to travel to GA to bag his chachalaca and red jungle fowl. I'm not so sure about the chachalaca, but I would guarantee the chickens...Geo
