Talk:Turkey (bird)

Why meleagris page is redirect here?

If it comes for the taste there are better options in the Meleagris birds than the turkey. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:E34:EC1A:1510:A847:153E:FE8E:C5DA (talk) 21:19, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

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The turkey is a large species of bird in the genus Meleagris, native to North America. There are two extant turkey species: the wild turkey (M. gallopavo) of eastern and central North America and the ocellated turkey (M. ocellata) of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Males of both turkey species have a distinctive fleshy wattle, called a snood, that hangs from the top of the beak. They are among the largest birds in their ranges. As with many large ground-feeding birds (members of the order Galliformes), the male is bigger and much more colorful than the female. This photograph, taken at Deer Island Preserve in Novato, California, shows a male Rio Grande wild turkey (M. g. intermedia) strutting – the courtship display, in which the snood (the erectile, fleshy protuberance on the forehead) engorges with blood, becomes redder and elongates, hanging well below the beak.

Photograph credit: Frank Schulenburg

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Misplaced names under tab "Names"

Under the section "names" the author gives different regional names for the turkey. Someone has mismatched the french word and the russian word. As of now the french word is written in cyrillic AND is in fact the russian word, and for russian its vice versa (french word, latin alphabet). Someone logged in must fix this error since the page is locked. 109.225.103.201 (talk) 16:03, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

The current phrasing is "such as dinde ('from India') in French, индюшка (indyushka, 'bird of India') in Russian, indyk in Polish and Ukrainian, and hindi ('Indian') in Turkish." I don't see anywhere in the page history where the French and Russian words are switched, are you sure you're not mistaken? --Spekkios (talk) 23:19, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

Incorrect tense under tab "Names"

The sentence "The linguist Mario Pei proposes two possible explanations for the name turkey." uses present tense to refer to Mario Pei's proposal. Since Pei died in 1978, this seems grammatically inappropriate. I am suggesting changing "proposes" to "proposed". Let me know if there is a reason for this to be in a present tense. 808agora (talk) 23:13, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

Suggestion: Add names derived from 'Calicut'

In addition to all of the names based on 'India', there are several Scandinavian and Dutch-related languages that get their words for 'turkey' from the Indian city formerly known as Calicut. 161.185.160.21 (talk) 16:47, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Grasshoppers, spiders, worms are not reptiles, but are listed as such in this article. Wild turkeys feed on various wildlife, depending on the season. In the warmer months of spring and summer, their diet consists mainly of grains such as wheat, corn, and of insects and smaller reptiles such as grasshoppers, spiders, worms, and, lizards. 152.131.10.79 (talk) 16:21, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Add mating/nesting/parenting behavior

I suggest adding a sub-section to Turkey_(bird)#Behavioron the mating, nesting, & parenting behaviors. — Lentower (talk) 16:33, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

That would be better placed in the wild turkey article. This article is supposedly about the genus Meleagris which has two species with the word "turkey" in their name. The wild turkey is by far the better known species, and all the references in the behavior section pertain to that species, not the ocellated turkey. Plantdrew (talk) 18:02, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

I added "{{See also|Wild_turkey#Behavior}}". Perhaps all this wild turkey behavior text should be moved to the Wild Turkey article. — Lentower (talk) 21:55, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

Unverifiable information in "Human conflicts with wild turkeys"

The statement "This advice was quickly rescinded and replaced with a caution that 'being aggressive toward wild turkeys is not recommended by State wildlife officials.'" is incorrect. According to the source, the general advice about how to scare turkeys away remained unchanged. The only thing that changed on the town's page was the addition of "not" before "recommended", hardly a retraction of the overall advice. 135.180.172.169 (talk) 23:16, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

Hatnote

Hello @An anonymous username, not my real name: I don't think that's correct. The hatnote provides a link for those editors who wanted to visit a different article. Invasive Spices (talk) 16:05, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

But who are those editors? The title of this article is "Turkey (bird)", so if they searched it up, they specifically chose to read this article as opposed to the one on the country (if they had searched just "Turkey", they would've arrived there). In theory, they could've clicked on a link from another article, but the context of the link should have been sufficient for anyone with a basic grasp of English. Ultimately, if there's no cause for confusion (which I would say there isn't, as I just explained), there is no more reason for the hatnote to be here than on, for instance, our article on Malta. An anonymous username, not my real name 18:01, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

"Turkeys evolved 20 million years ago" Citation needed.

It's funny how most claims have citations except the evolutionary ones. Very telling. 98.3.115.155 (talk) 00:02, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

You're right that the claims need a source. The omission is not particularly telling, I don't think, but does need rectifying. The best thing to do when you see an unsourced claim is either (a) find a source and add it or (b) mark it as 'citation needed'. I don't know a good source off-hand, so I've done the second of these for you and added 'citation needed' into the article. Thank you for helping to improve Wikipedia. mooncow 16:51, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

The text says that Turkeys were introduced to North America in he 17th Century, however in May 1607 Captain Christopher Newport

Captain Christopher Newport, while exploring the James River discovered Turkey Island (two miles south). He named it for the large number of wild turkeys there. (A historical marker located near Richmond in Henrico County, Virginia.) https://www.pinterest.com/pin/turkey-island-marker--566468459362239333/#:~:text=Captain%20Christopher%20Newport%2C%20while%20exploring,in%20Henrico%20County%2C%20Virginia.) 172.56.201.82 (talk) 04:07, 27 February 2024 (UTC)