The turkey is a large bird in the genus Meleagris, which is native to the Americas. The wild turkey of eastern and central North America and the ocellated turkey of the Yucatán Peninsula have a distinctive fleshy wattle or protuberance that hangs from the top of the beak. The male is larger and much more colorful than the female.
About Turkey (bird) in brief
The turkey is a large bird in the genus Meleagris, which is native to the Americas. The wild turkey of eastern and central North America and the ocellated turkey of the Yucatán Peninsula have a distinctive fleshy wattle or protuberance that hangs from the top of the beak. As with many Galliformes, the male is larger and much more colorful than the female. The earliest turkeys evolved in North America over 20 million years ago and they share a recent common ancestor with grouse, pheasants, and other fowl. Wild turkeys have a social structure and pecking order and habituated turkeys may respond to humans and animals in the same way they do to other animals. The town of Brookline, Massachusetts, recommends that citizens be toward the turkeys, take a step toward them and not back down. Brookline officials have also recommended popping an open umbrella; squirting them with a hose; allowing your leashed dog to bark at them; and forcefully fending them off with a broom.
The former turkey is probably a basal turkey, not a very very contemporary bird, not very very similar to the modern turkey. The bird sometimes known as the \”Australian turkey\” is the Australian bustard. The anhinga is sometimes called the water turkey, from the shape of its tail when the feathers are fully spread for drying. An infant turkey is called a chick or poult. In Portuguese a turkey is peru; the name is thought to derive from the eponymous country Peru. The ancient people of Mexico had not only domesticated the turkey, but had apparently developed sophisticated recipes including these ingredients over hundreds of years.
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