A turkey vulture standing on the ground can, at a distance, resemble a wild turkey. It is unique among our vultures in that it finds carrion by smell as well as by sight. When threatened ...
The National Wild Turkey Federation wrote in a blog that turkeys were likely one of the first animals to be domesticated and raised for food in the Americas, with the Mayans domesticating turkeys ...
In a letter to his daughter, Franklin did call the turkey a “much more respectable bird,” writing that although they were “a little vain and silly” they were a “bird of courage,” according to The ...