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wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
THE AMERICAN TURKEY
Date 1898
Source http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/6949913800
Author Charles Dixon
Full title Lost and vanishing birds; being a record of some remarkable extinct species and a plea for some threatened forms, by Charles Dixon. With ten plates by Charles Whymper.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lost_and_vanishing_birds_(Plate_IX)_(6949913800).jpg
The wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is an upland ground bird native to North America and is the heaviest member of the diverse Galliformes. It is the same species as the domestic turkey, which was originally derived from a southern Mexican subspecies of wild turkey. |
