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Show Hew game birds from Argentina coming to Uidi The pale spotted tinamou and the crested tinamou are soon to become Utah's newest exotic game birds under study at the Department of Fish and Game Price Game Farm. Thirty-one of these birds were shipped from their native Argentina Ar-gentina and are now being held in quarantine in New Jersey Jer-sey where they will be sent on to Utah at the end of their three week quarantine period. Tinamous are native pf the arid and semi-arid lands of Argentina, Ar-gentina, where they were obtained ob-tained under the Foreign Game Bird Introduction Program conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. If efforts to raise these birds in Utah are successful, they will be released into arid and semi-arid areas similar to those of their native lands. Both the pale spotted and the crested tinamou are small birds, the pale spotted being about the size of a California quail and the crested being about the size of a chukar partridge. par-tridge. The male of each spe- : cies incubates the eggs and cares for the broods of young birds. 1 Information from initial studies stu-dies conducted in Argentina indicate in-dicate the crested tinamou may , be the easiest of the two birds to raise on a game farm. It is also possible that some reproduction re-production may be obtained , from these birds this year once '. they arrive at the Price Game Farm. Releases into the wild of ; these birds will not be made until ample numbers are avail-1 avail-1 able to ensure some measures of success. |
