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    Oct 13, 2022 0 minutes

    WILD TURKEY

    MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO

    Bilderatlas, 1860-64, Uncredited

    Native to North), yet in the wild these birds are capable of flight. Despite this they are reluctant flyers, and by the early 1900s, the turkey population of North America had plummeted through over-hunting. While the bird may be North American, its name is said to have come from Britain, where one theory suggests that these birds had originally been imported from merchants in Turkey.

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