domesticated turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)

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domesticated turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)

Illustration to Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill, by Arthur Rackham
Date 1906
Source http://clarke.cmich.edu/rackhamarthur/children.htm
Author Arthur Rackham (1867–1939)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hoity-toity.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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