Early Attempts to Raise and Stock Game Birds in Texas

Authors

Stanley D. Casto, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

Publication Date

1-1-2006

Abstract

Game birds were often kept as household pets or in private aviaries in early Texas. Sportsmen sometimes attempted to stock native game birds outside their normal range and, in the case of the Ring-necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), to introduce an exotic species. The Scaled Quail (Callipepla squamata) taken in Cooke and Fannin counties during 1886 were, most likely, introduced birds or escapees rather than birds native to the area. Accounts of these early attempts at aviculture and stocking are found for the most part in the newspapers, hunting magazines, and archival records of the time.

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Casto, Stanley D. (2006) "Early Attempts to Raise and Stock Game Birds in Texas," Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society: Vol. 39: Iss. 1, Article 6.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/tos_bulletin/vol39/iss1/6