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Turkey Temporal range: 23–0 Ma Pre๊ ๊ O S D C P T J K Pg N Early Miocene – Recent A male wild turkey strutting Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Galliformes Family: Phasianidae Subfamily: Phasianinae Tribe: Tetraonini Genus: Meleagris Linnaeus, 1758 Type species Meleagris gallopavo (wild turkey) Linnaeus, 1758 Species M ...
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Turkey. The avifauna of Turkey include a total of 495 species, of which 90 have occurred accidentally and 4 have been introduced by humans . The official checklist of birds of Turkey is maintained by the Turkish Bird Records Committee, [ 1 ] which receives and reviews the submitted records via eBird .
Some species hold only an "unofficial" status. The Official status column is marked as Yes only if the bird currently holds the position of the official national bird. Additionally, the list includes birds that were once official but are no longer, as well as birds recognized as national symbols or for other symbolic roles.
While we aren't sure if turkeys made an appearance on the first Thanksgiving table, they deservedly found a spot in our modern holiday buffets.
Turkey has a large range of habitat types and a great faunal diversity. Nearly 1,500 vertebrate species were recorded, of which over 100 species, mostly fish, are endemic. The country is on two major routes used by migratory birds which increase in numbers during spring and autumn.
Woody Harrelson as Jake, a wild turkey who is the president of the Turkey Freedom Front (T.F.F.). Amy Poehler as Jenny, a wild turkey who is Reggie's love interest, and later the chief of the native turkeys. George Takei as the Space Time Exploration Vehicle Envoy (S.T.E.V.E.), an artificial intelligence of the time machine, shaped like a giant ...
The USDA estimates 46 million birds will be eaten at Thanksgiving. About 88% of us will have turkey at Thanksgiving. The per capita yearly consumption of turkey is 14.6 pounds.
Anchiornis huxleyi is an important source of information on the early evolution of birds in the Late Jurassic period. [27] The consensus view in contemporary palaeontology is that the flying theropods, or avialans, are the closest relatives of the deinonychosaurs, which include dromaeosaurids and troodontids. [28]