domesticated turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) Français : Enfant de Massat en costume traditionnel (XIXe siècle)
Date 1928
Source Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse, A-GARDILANNE (13)
Author Elisabeth Whitney Moffat
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:B315556101_A_GARDILANNE_1_013.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.