Turkey (disambiguation)

Turkey is a country in Eurasia.

Turkey may also refer to:

Bird-related

• Turkey (bird), the genus Meleagris, including several species of large birds native to North America and Central America
  • Ocellated turkey, native to the Yucatán
  • Wild turkey, a common species native to North America
    • Domesticated turkey, domesticated forms of the wild turkey
  • Turkey meat, the meat of the birds

Places

United States

• Turkey, North Carolina, a town
• Turkey, Texas, a city
• Turkey Mountain (New York)
• Turkey Mountain, a hill in Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area, Oklahoma
• Turkey River (Iowa)
• Turkey River (New Hampshire)
• Turkey Ponds, New Hampshire
• Turkey Creek (disambiguation)
• Turkey Island (disambiguation), several American islands (also includes places in England)

Other

• Turkey, Limpopo, South Africa
• Turkey Brook, Hertfordshire, England

People

• Turkey Smart (1830–1919), British champion speed skater
• Turkey Stearnes (1901–1979), American baseball player in the Negro leagues
• Turkey Tayac (1895–1978), American Indian leader and herbal doctor
• Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula (c. 1938 – 2001), Australian Indigenous artist

Other uses

• Turkey (bowling), a bowling term used to denote three consecutive strikes
• Box office bomb, in entertainment
• "The Turkey", a short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor
• USS Turkey, two US Navy minesweepers
• Hotel Turkey, Turkey, Texas
• Turkeys, original title of the animated film Free Birds

See also

• Türkiye (newspaper), a Turkish newspaper
• Australian brushturkey, also called scrub turkey or bush turkey, a species of mound-building bird found in eastern Australia
• Australian bustard or bush turkey, a species of large ground bird in Australia and New Guinea
• Turkey vulture or turkey buzzard, a scavenger bird native to the Americas
• Turkey moray, an eel found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans
• Little Turkey (1758–1801), a Cherokee leader