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Why is it called a turkey?

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The wild turkey is a large, grounded bird native to the United States of America. Because of this, Benjamin Franklin once claimed it to be the most American of birds, and even a more fitting national bird than the Bald Eagle. read more

Because Turkey is called "Turkey" long before it is a country. Wikipedia has an articale on this:"It is first recorded in Middle English (asTurkye, Torke, later Turkie, Turky), attested in Chaucer, ca. 1369" Name of Turkey So English people named the bird "turkey" as Turkey since it was common in Turkey, at that time. read more

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