Turkey Bird Facts
Hear all of their sounds thanks to the National Wild Turkey Federation. The founder of modern Turkey was born in 1881 in what was then the Ottoman city of Selanik now Saloniki in Greece. 14 Fun Facts About Turkeys Science Smithsonian Magazine For unrelated but similar birds see bustard Australian turkey megapode brush turkey and snakebird water turkey. Turkey bird facts . They cannot fly like most birds. Turkeys are a family of bird in the genus Meleagrididae. 2 The wild turkey was hunted nearly to extinction by the early 1900s when the population reached a low of around 30000 birds. The other species is Agriocharis or Meleagris ocellata the ocellated turkey. The Turks didnt use the name Türkiye Land of the Turks officially until the republic was established in 1923. Turkeys are kept on farms for their meat and for their eggs. The noble fowl was a favored food of Native Americans. In fact turkeys make all kinds of sounds including a cackle when they fly clucks and