Sometime back in the 1950's the State of Georgia was getting a lot of pressure from outdoorsmen to experiment with stocking pheasants. What the natural resources biologists discovered was that pheasants won't survive or breed in the South. Someone got the bright idea of stocking red jungle fowl like the one pictured above by skeeterbd.

A big bunch of them were planted near the town of Fitzgerald at the state fish hatchery at Bowen's Mill. I think the State of Georgia got snookered into buying tame birds rather than wild stock. They look just like the picture above and unlike tame bantams they all look just about alike.

The birds all seem to have migrated into the town to find someone to feed them. People began feeding them and they're still there. The city of Fitzgerald, GA has a "wild chicken festival" every year to celebrate the colony. The residential streets have chicken nests built on poles to provide the hens with protected places to set their eggs.

The nicer parts of town are full of the birds which wander freely around the homes. There are fewer in the less affluent parts of town near the public housing projects, so I presume they must be pretty good to eat. Probably taste "just like chicken"...Geo