People of this era may have domesticated turkeys.

Spaniards had encountered domesticated turkeys in Panama in 1502.

Within a few years, New Englanders were raising domesticated turkeys they had brought from England.

Domesticated turkeys were widely used by American Indians in pre-Columbian culture.

Turkey meat is the meat from turkeys, typically domesticated turkeys.

Besides the taste difference, domesticated turkeys have never been able to adapt to the wild, Mr. Cole said.

Female domesticated turkeys are referred to as hens and the chicks may be called poults or turkeylings.

They wove baskets to carry in the harvest, and they domesticated turkeys and dogs for food.

Domesticated turkeys appear.

They normally subsist on the tree's cottony foliage, augmented by hunting and a flock of domesticated turkeys.

Wild turkeys, while technically the same species as domesticated turkeys, have a very different taste from farm-raised turkeys.

It ranged widely across North America from New England to Mexico, where the Indians domesticated turkeys and used them in religious ceremonies.

The Puebloan culture was based on agriculture, and the people created and cultivated fields of maize, beans, and squash and domesticated turkeys.

Domesticated turkeys were common in Mesoamerica and in some regions of North America; they were valued for their meat, feathers, and, possibly (though less likely), eggs.

These domesticated turkeys of Mexican origin were shipped from England to the 17th-century settlements in Virginia and Massachusetts, even though their wild brethren were plentiful in both locations.

They also domesticated turkeys, duck and dogs as food and at times ate meat from larger wild animals such as deer, but none of these were a major part of their diet.

He was said to have taken a nest of wild turkey eggs to be mothered by his barnyard hen, and the fledglings became as assimilated as his best domesticated turkeys.

The great majority of domesticated turkeys are bred to have white feathers because their pin feathers are less visible when the carcass is dressed, although brown or bronze-feathered varieties are also raised.

In domesticated turkeys the ability to fly depends directly on weight, while even heavy adult wild turkeys can fly well enough to avoid predators by taking off and flying up to 100 yards and perching in tree branches.

The announcement on Saturday that the deadly strain of bird flu was discovered in domesticated turkeys in France has disrupted the country's $7 billion poultry market and raised fears among the French that they could be vulnerable to the disease.

The Spaniards had brought domesticated turkeys back from Central America in the early 17th century, and the birds soon became popular fare all over Europe, including England, where turkey (as an alternative to the traditional goose) became a "fixture at English Christmases".

In the Southwestern United States it occurred from 500 to 1200 C.E. when there was a dramatic increase in population and development of large villages supported by agriculture based on dryland farming of maize, and later, beans, squash, and domesticated turkeys.

He doubtless had in mind meleagris gallopavo, the wild turkey.

The island also supports a population of feral turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo).

It is one of the most common diseases in the Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) population.

In 2010, a team of scientists published a draft sequence of the domestic turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) genome.

Meleagris gallopavo (turkey)

Native birds include the greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) and wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo).

The heaviest member of this diverse order is the North American Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo).

Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)

The eastern wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris) is the most widely distributed of the five distinct subspecies in the United States.

P. hermani - turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), bobwhite (Colinus virginianus)

The Aztecs are credited with domestication of the subspecies of wild turkey, Meleagris gallopavo, which is native to this region.

The Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is the name of the more common of the two species of turkey (a large bird).

This organism infects the domestic turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) and the South American penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus).

In the early days of the European colonisation of North America, the native Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) was confused with this species.

One native North American "pheasant" known to be occasionally hunted is the Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), the largest species of galliform.

Hosts of this species include domestic turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) and Swainson's Francolin (Francolinus swainsoni).

One subspecies of Wild Turkey, Meleagris gallopavo, namely subspecies osceola, is found only in the state of Florida.

The modern domesticated form descends from the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), one of the two species of turkey (genus Meleagris).

Similarly, although Wild Turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) have a diet primarily of vegetation, they will eat insects, mice, lizards and amphibians, wading in water to hunt for the latter.

The prairie used to support quantities of Bobwhite Quail (Colinus virginianus), Eastern Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris), and a variety of songbird species.

GLENN COLE swears that no hunting is more physically and mentally taxing than that for the wily, fast and furtive meleagris gallopavo .

There are two species of turkey pursued as game animals in North America, the Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) and the Ocellated Turkey (Meleagris ocellata).

The birdlife is diverse including Wild Turkey, Meleagris gallopavo, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Sphyrapicus varius and Loggerhead Shrike, Lanius ludovicianus.

But though the Meleagris gallopavo (wild turkey) may be a "little vain and silly," it forages for its own food and builds its own nests, rather than steal the work products of other birds.

The Eastern wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo sylvestris) was here when the first Europeans arrived, but, by the 1840's it had been wiped out by hunting and trapping and loss of habitat to lumbering and farming.