Wild turkey

Meleagris gallopavo · Phasianidae

The wild turkey is an upland game bird native to North America, one of two extant species of turkey and the heaviest member of the order Galliformes. It is the ancestor to the domestic turkey, which was originally derived from a southern Mexican subspecies of wild turkey.

Where the Wild turkey lives

Recorded in United States of America and Canada (North America).

Most records fall in California, Ontario, Massachusetts, Florida, Texas and Michigan.

See the Wild turkey’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 2,844,243 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.