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domesticated turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
Author C. W. Nash
English: Wild Turkey
Meleagris gallopavo silvestrie
Subject: Wild turkey, Meleagris, Turkeys
Tag: Birds
Date 1908
Source/Photographer
English: Nash, C. W. (1908) Vertebrates of Ontario : Checklist of the Birds of Ontario, Toronto, ONT: L. K. Cameron, p. 36
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_36007_Wild_Turkey.jpeg
The domesticated turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is a large poultry bird, domestic form of the wild turkey. The English language name for this species results from an early misidentification of the bird with an unrelated species which was imported to Europe through the country of Turkey. |
