Wild turkey
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Information for Authority record
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q26844
Library of congress:
sh 85146690
Sources of Information
- Birds N. Am., no. 22 (1992):p. 1 (Meleagris gallopavo, Wild turkey. Order Galliformes, subfamily Meleagridinae, family Phasianidae)
- Howard birds world:p. 41 (Meleagris gallopavo, Common turkey. Subfamily Melagridinae sic, family Phasianidae)
- Hdbk. birds world, c1992:v. 1, p. 374 (Wild turkey, Meleagris gallopavo. Family Meleagrididae)
- Cklist. N. Am. birds:p. 141 (Meleagris gallopavo, Wild turkey. Also known as Common or Plain turkey. Family Phasianidae, subfamily Meleagridinae)
- Sibley, C.G. Distribution and taxonomy of birds of the world, c1990:p. 23 (Meleagris gallopavo, Wild turkey. Phasianidae. Other names: Common turkey, Plain turkey, the turkey)
- Peterson, R.T. A field guide to western birds, 1990:p. 158 (Wild turkey, Meleagris gallopavo. Family Phasianidae)
- Natl. geog. soc. field guide to the birds of N. Am., c1987:p. 222 (Wild turkey, Meleagris gallopavo. Family Phasianidae)
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Wikipedia description:
The wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is an upland game bird native to North America, one of two extant species of turkey and the heaviest member of the order Galliformes. It is the ancestor to the domestic turkey (M. g. domesticus), which was originally derived from a southern Mexican subspecies of wild turkey (not the related ocellated turkey).
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