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Meleagris gallopavo · Family Phasianidae

Meleagris gallopavo

Family Phasianidae

Order
Galliformes
Family
Phasianidae
GBIF occurrence records
2,845,263
Countries and territories with records
117
Wild Turkey
Judy Gallagher · Wild Turkey (female) - Meleagris gallopavo, Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Woodbridge, Virginia.jpg · CC BY 2.0 · Judy Gallagher · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Jonathon Jongsma · Meleagris_gallopavo_-_Wild_Turkey_-_XC104533.ogg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Jonathon Jongsma · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 2,845,263 occurrence records from 117 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (88.4%) and Canada (11%); together they account for 99.4% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.23% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Meleagris gallopavo combines the genus name Meleagris with the species epithet gallopavo. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Meleagris: Meleagris ocellata.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 164 species of the family Phasianidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Phasianus colchicus. Its record count is 33.9 times the family average (83,905). The family Phasianidae belongs to the order Galliformes, which has 278 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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