Turkey Temporal range: Early Miocene – Recent | |
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Wild turkey | |
Scientific classification | |
Unrecognized taxon (fix): | Meleagridinae |
Genus: | Meleagris Linnaeus, 1758 |
Species | |
Turkeys are birds in the genus Meleagris. They are like a chicken but much bigger. Wild turkeys live in forests in North America and Central America. In the United States, people traditionally eat turkey on the holiday of Thanksgiving.
This genus has two species: