Metadata

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last Record

The 19th century

Place of Breeding

Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado, USA

Synonym

Southwestern

Extinction Reason

Spanish Colonialism | Introduction of European domesticates

References

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Keim, B. (2010, February 1). The Lost Turkeys of the New World. Wired. https://www.wired.com/2010/02/lost-turkeys/

Munro, N. D. (1994, May). (thesis). An Investigation of Anasazi Turkey Production in Southwestern Colorado. Simon Fraser University. Retrieved from https://summit.sfu.ca/_flysystem/fedora/sfu_migrate/5056/b14873266.pdf.

Speller, C. F., Kemp, B. M., Wyatt, S. D., Monroe, C., Lipe, W. D., Arndt, U. M., & Yang, D. Y. (2010). Ancient mitochondrial DNA analysis reveals complexity of Indigenous North American Turkey domestication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(7), 2807–2812. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0909724107

Viegas, J. (2010, February 1). Native Americans tamed turkeys in 800 B.C. NBCNews.com. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna35186605