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domesticated turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
Title Truthahn
Original caption
Original image description from the Deutsche Fotothek
Landwirtschaft & Nutztierhaltung & Truthahn
Author Wolf Helmhardt von Hohberg
Date 1695
Medium copper engraving on paper
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fotothek_df_tg_0007742_Landwirtschaft_%5E_Nutztierhaltung_%5E_Truthahn.jpg
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. |