domesticated turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) 105 WILD TURKEY
Title: Alabama bird day book
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Alabama. Dept. of Game and Fish Alabama. Dept. of Conservation
Subjects: Birds
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alabama_bird_day_book_(1915)_(14748865901).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.