[ricree]

>So it's native to the new world, but not native to North America?

My understanding is that the wild turkey was common throughout North America, but was domesticated in Mexico, and modern turkey farming uses stock descending from that population.

So the bird itself is native, but most Turkey farms in the US or Canada would have been Mexico->Europe->NA.

[onraglanroad]

But Mexico is in North America...

[ricree]

Yes. As far as I'm aware the person I responded to was mistaken about that. My own point was that commercial farming in the rest of NA (and possibly even parts of Mexico, I genuinely don't know) was introduced via Europe rather than straight from Mexico. At least as far as I'm aware.