It didn't become a traditional part of the Thanksgiving celebration until the 1800s. The wild turkey is closely tied to the Native American culture and its history in the United States is sometimes misunderstood. It has brown features with buff-colored feathers on the tips of the wing and tail. The result was the Standard Bronze, the turkey we often see pictured in Thanksgiving advertisements. In the 17th Century, English colonists brought turkeys back to the New World, introducing European-bred types to the native turkeys in eastern North America. Turkeys provided excellent meat and eggs and helped control pests by eating large numbers of insects. There the species soon became established as a common farmstead fowl. In the 16th Century, explorers took turkeys from Mexico back to Europe. At that time, anything from the exotic East was given the name “turkey.” Since turkeys looked similar to peacocks brought by explorers to Europe from Asia, they assumed that’s what they were. Early European explorers called them “turkey” after the country in Asia. They were first domesticated by the Aztecs in Mexico. The birds we know as turkeys are native to Mexico and the eastern United States. Wild: living in a state of nature and not under human control and care
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