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@beautyandwonder.bsky.social

What's your morning commute traffic look like? I run into this crew a few mornings a week when leaving the neighborhood. They are NEVER in a hurry to get anywhere, lol.
#gaylordmichigan #northernmichigan #itsbetteruphere #wildturkey #Meleagrisgallopavo

July 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM

mansuranamur.bsky.social

@mansuranamur.bsky.social

#HİNDİ 'NİN GERÇEK KÖKENİ
Hindiler, #Amerika kıtasına (özellikle Meksika ve KuzeyAmerika’ya)özgü bir türdür.Bilimsel adı #MeleagrisGallopavo olan evcil hindi,vahşi #KuzeyAmerika hindisinden evcilleştirilmiştir.Yaklaşık 2.000 yıl önce OrtaAmerika’daki Aztekler tarafından evcilleştirildiği bilinir.

November 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM

Lee Hall

@paleeoguy.bsky.social

Happy Thanksgiving! It's the 10th anniversary of my silly turkey ala paleoart drawing. "Gobble gobble" and have a wonderful holiday!

#thanksgiving #paleoart #turkey #meleagrisgallopavo #gobblegobble #turkeyday #dinosaur #birdsaredinosaurs #paleontology

November 28, 2024 at 10:12 PM

Chris Whittier

@chriswhittier.bsky.social

OTD in '23: one of the larger species of 'waterfowl' that visits the beaver pond!

🪶🦃 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #MeleagrisGallopavo

Daytime camera trap photo of a wild turkey about to cross a remnant beaver dam with some melting snow scattered throughout the scene.

February 27, 2026 at 1:41 PM

Chris Whittier

@chriswhittier.bsky.social

OTD in '23: an artsy shot of wild turkeys.

🦃🪶 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #MeleagrisGallopavo

Daytime camera trap photo of blurred turkey wings

December 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM

Chris Whittier

@chriswhittier.bsky.social

OTD in '22: a wild turkey plays airplane.

🪶🦃 #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #MeleagrisGallopavo

Camera trap photo of a wild turkey running through the leaves with wings spread.

November 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM

Chris Whittier

@chriswhittier.bsky.social

OTD in '19: the band dropped by for their album cover shoot.

🪶🦃 #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #Rockstar #MeleagrisGallopavo #WildTurkey

Camera trap photo of 3 close-up wild turkey toms with tails fully fanned pausing directly in front of the camera.

October 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM

taiche

@taicheuk.bsky.social

Oklahoma Territory Gamebird The Wild Turkey #TShirt #taiche #oklahoma #oklahomastate #wildturkey #Meleagrisgallopavo #gamebird #turkeyhunting #turkeyhunt #hunting #bird #wildlife #wildturkeytom #unitedstates #april22 #oklahomans #gifts #fathersdaygifts www.zazzle.com/z/apqb6bih?r...

March 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM

Ellie Bruns

@brunsellie.bsky.social

Wild Turkey showing off its iridescence in the sun 😎 #wildturkey #meleagrisgallopavo #birding

January 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM

WSU Department of Anthropology

@wsuanthropology.bsky.social

Congratulations to Professor Erin Thornton and her co-editors (Aurélie Manin, Camilla F. Speller, and Eduardo Corona-M.) on their recent publication "Exploring the History of Turkey Management and Domestication:
A Transatlantic Perspective". #Zooarchaeology #MeleagrisGallopavo #WSUAnthropology

Photo of Erin Thornton standing by wild turkey sculpture

cover of Erin Thornton's co-edited volume 10

September 22, 2026 at 8:41 PM

Brenna

@iamowls.bsky.social

Wild turkey at Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust, PA.

To buy this photo, visit: brennafarrell.smugmug.com/Birds/i-3HcQ...

#dslr #nikon #birdphotography #birds #turkey #wildturkey #meleagris #meleagrisgallopavo #pennsylvania

The turkey has a reddish pink unfeathered head with a short, curved, light colored beak and pinkish wattle. It's lower neck and body are covered in dark brown, iridescent blunt tipped feathers. The background is green grass and blurry, green plants.

July 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM

Chris Whittier

@chriswhittier.bsky.social

OTD in '22: Spread your wings- time to fly.

🪶🦃❄️ #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday
#MeleagrisGallopavo #WildTurkey

PS- #GoPATS! 🏈🤞

Daytime camera trap photo of a flock of turkeys in the snow with one flapping its wings.

January 25, 2026 at 3:42 PM

Chris Whittier

@chriswhittier.bsky.social

OTD in '20: the pre-Halloween snow lingered and some adventurous- or just hungry- turkeys were out and about.

🪶🦃❄️🎃 #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #MeleagrisGallopavo #turkey

Camera trap photo of wild turkeys walking in the snow

October 31, 2025 at 2:46 PM

Chris Whittier

@chriswhittier.bsky.social

Fresh snow OTD last year made for some pretty captures: 4AM fisher, 8AM pair of coyotes & 9AM blondie; 10AM turkey.

🦊🦃 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #CanisLatrans #PekaniaPennanti #MeleagrisGallopavo

Camera trap photo of a blond colored coyote in the fresh snow

White flash night camera trap photo of a fisher in the falling snow

Camera trap photo of a wild turkey in the fresh snow

Camera trap photo of a two coyotes staring at each other in the fresh snow

December 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM

Clemens Kurek

@cochise.bsky.social

Harvards Old Burying Ground und seine Truthühner (#Meleagrisgallopavo).
#BosBriChiMin

August 27, 2024 at 11:40 PM

Angela Avera Selter

@artemiskick.bsky.social

Giving thanks in spite of the current state of affairs; gratefulness is essential.

wild turkey feathers, found and photographed
©angela avera selter
#turkey #meleagrisgallopavo #bird #northamericannative #feathers #hopeisthethingwithfeathers #emilydickinson #thanksgiving

Color photo. Close up view of several wild turkey feathers speckled and striped in hues of amber, brown, black, and white.

November 28, 2024 at 11:19 AM

Jose Chapa Jr.

@chicanology.bsky.social

The wild turkey (Meleagrisgallopavo), 🦃 originally native to #Mexico, was domesticated by Mesoamerican peoples at least 2,000 years ago. This domestication is distinct from a separate event that occurred in the American #Southwest. The ancient #Aztecs, #Maya, and #Zapotec kept

November 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM