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Query: Birds of europeResult: 1146th of 1703
domesticated turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
Subject: domesticated turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
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Charles Angrand, The Guardian of Turkeys.jpg
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domesticated turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)


Charles Angrand, The Guardian of Turkeys, oil on canvas, 55 x 46 cm
Artist Charles Angrand (1854–1926)
Date 1881
Source/Photographer http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=72966
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Angrand,_The_Guardian_of_Turkeys.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.

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