Explorers brought wild turkeys to Europe in the sixteenth century. So successful was their domestication that English settlers actually took them back to America with them as farm stock. Male turkeys are known as gobblers after the loud 'gobbling' calls they use to attract females, a sound that can be heard over a mile away.

Turkeys' heads and necks can be blue, red or white depending on the season or their mood. These are the heaviest of the gamebirds, but they're no slouches when it comes to getting around, they can run at 25mph and fly at 55mph. Turkeys are plentiful and widespread in North America, where they forage in fields and woodlands by day and roost in trees at night.

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