Illustration by E. Stuart Hardy for "The Pigeon Tale" by Virginia Bennett.
Date 27 September 2013, 16:42:14
Source http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20567/20567-h/20567-h.htm
Author Evelyn Stuart Hardy (illustrator)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:E._Stuart_Hardy_4.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.