Talk:Turkey (bird)

message: If it comes for the taste there are better options in the Meleagris birds than the turkey.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:E34:EC1A:1510:A847:153E:FE8E:C5DA (talk) 21:19, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why meleagris page is redirect here? 

message: Hello! This is to let editors know that :File:Male wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) strutting.jpg, a featured picture used in this article, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for November 24, 2022. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2022-11-24. For the greater benefit of readers, any potential improvements or maintenance that could benefit the quality of this article should be done before its scheduled appearance on the Main Page.  If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.9% of all FPs 22:00, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured picture scheduled for POTD 

message: Under the section "names" the author gives different regional names for the turkey. Someone has mismatched the french word and the russian word. As of now the french word is written in cyrillic AND is in fact the russian word, and for russian its vice versa (french word, latin alphabet). Someone logged in must fix this error since the page is locked. 109.225.103.201 (talk) 16:03, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The current phrasing is "such as dinde ('from India') in French, индюшка (indyushka, 'bird of India') in Russian, indyk in Polish and Ukrainian, and hindi ('Indian') in Turkish." I don't see anywhere in the page history where the French and Russian words are switched, are you sure you're not mistaken? --Spekkios (talk) 23:19, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misplaced names under tab "Names" 

message: The sentence "The linguist Mario Pei proposes two possible explanations for the name turkey." uses present tense to refer to Mario Pei's proposal. Since Pei died in 1978, this seems grammatically inappropriate. I am suggesting changing "proposes" to "proposed". Let me know if there is a reason for this to be in a present tense. 808agora (talk) 23:13, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect tense under tab "Names" 

message: In addition to all of the names based on 'India', there are several Scandinavian and Dutch-related languages that get their words for 'turkey' from the Indian city formerly known as Calicut. 161.185.160.21 (talk) 16:47, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion: Add names derived from 'Calicut' 

message: I suggest adding a sub-section to Turkey_(bird)#Behavioron the mating, nesting, & parenting behaviors. — Lentower (talk) 16:33, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be better placed in the wild turkey article. This article is supposedly about the genus Meleagris which has two species with the word "turkey" in their name. The wild turkey is by far the better known species, and all the references in the behavior section pertain to that species, not the ocellated turkey. Plantdrew (talk) 18:02, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I added "".  Perhaps all this wild turkey behavior text should be moved to the Wild Turkey article. — Lentower (talk) 21:55, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add mating/nesting/parenting behavior  

message: The statement "This advice was quickly rescinded and replaced with a caution that 'being aggressive toward wild turkeys is not recommended by State wildlife officials.'" is incorrect. According to the source, the general advice about how to scare turkeys away remained unchanged. The only thing that changed on the town's page was the addition of "not" before "recommended", hardly a retraction of the overall advice. 135.180.172.169 (talk) 23:16, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unverifiable information in "Human conflicts with wild turkeys" 

message: Hello  I don't think that's correct. The hatnote provides a link for those editors who wanted to visit a different article. Invasive Spices (talk) 16:05, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: But who are those editors? The title of this article is "Turkey (bird)", so if they searched it up, they specifically chose to read this article as opposed to the one on the country (if they had searched just "Turkey", they would've arrived there). In theory, they could've clicked on a link from another article, but the context of the link should have been sufficient for anyone with a basic grasp of English. Ultimately, if there's no cause for confusion (which I would say there isn't, as I just explained), there is no more reason for the hatnote to be here than on, for instance, our article on Malta. An anonymous username, not my real name 18:01, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hatnote 

message: Origin of the Bird's name should be given in the opening to eliminate confusion with the name of the Turkish nation. For example this bird is called "Hindi" (Indian) in Turkish due to the historical Indian trade route.
Similarly "corn" is called "misir" (Egypt) in Turkish due to the historic grain trade route coming from Egypt. 31.206.143.199 (talk) 08:43, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of the name