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  A NEW TURKEY FROM THE PLIOCENE OF NEBRASKA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The tarsometatarsus resembles Agriocharis and differs from Parapavo and Meleagria in the angle of the spur core to the acrotarsal surface (less than 60ø; greater for Parapavo and Meleagris, less for Agriocharis).
Agriocharis crassipe, from the Late Pleistocene of Mexico also has a small coracold, but it is stouter and the tarsometatarsus of A. crassipes is larger as well as being more heavily built.
Agriocharis leopoldi has the spur core at a much greater angle (53-58.5 ø) and placed slightly lower (39.8 per cent of the total length) than it is in Proagriocharis (see Miller and Bowman, 1956:44).
elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Wilson/v082n02/p0214-p0218.html   (2748 words)

  
 Meleagrididae. Who is Meleagrididae? What is Meleagrididae? Where is Meleagrididae? Definition of Meleagrididae. ...
They are commonly domesticated and used for poultry.
The species are the North American Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) and the Central American Ocellated Turkey (Agriocharis ocellata).
Although the domesticated turkey has been deemed foolish and easily confused, the Wild Turkey is a game animal of considerable cunning.
www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Meleagrididae   (254 words)

  
 Chaenopsis ocellata
Agriocharis ocellata - wild turkey of Central America and northern South America...
Some aspects of the behavior of the blennioid fish Chaenopsis ocellata Poey C Robins, C Philllips, F hillipps The marine laboratory, University Miamin...
Grep of noun ocellata agriocharis ocellata chaenopsis ocellata leipoa ocellata viola ocellata.
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 Agriocharis ocellata - San Antonio Zoo and Aquarium - Meet Our Animals - Birds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
These ocellated turkeys (Agriocharis ocellata) took eight photographs of themselves over a four-minute period.
Called Cutz by the Maya, the Agriocharis ocellata is a wild bird similar to the domestic turkey.
The Latin name is sometimes given as Agriocharis ocellata.
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 ocellata Blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Paramuricea grandis Pennatula aculeata Placopecten magellanicus Pollachius virens Primnoa resedaeformis Prionace glauca Pseudopleuronectes americanus Raja ocellata Raja sp.
The Mallee Fowl The Mallee fowl or Lowan bird (scientific name leipoa ocellata, of the megapod family), is an endangered mound building bird which uses heat from fermentation to hatch eggs laid in...
ocellata and C. limbaughi have identical fin-ray counts and probably cannot be distinguished as larvae.
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 Turkey, Birds, Turkey, Bird Pictures, Catalog, Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Date : 9/22/2005 Time : 2:30:49 PM The turkey is a large game bird native to North American forested areas and now raised commercially for food in most parts of the world.
Two species--the wild turkey, Meleagris gallopavo, of the eastern and central United States and Mexico, and the ocellated turkey, Agriocharis ocellata, of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and adjacent areas--make up the family Meleagrididae, which is classified with pheasants in the order Galliformes.
An adult male wild turkey is about 1.2 m (4 ft) long and has metallic greenish, bronze, or brownish plumage, broad rounded wings and tail, and long, slim, spurred legs.
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 Ocellated Turkey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Ocellated Turkey (Meleagris ocellata) is a large bird around 70-90 cm long and 3 kg (female) to 4 kg (male) weight.
In the past, it has sometimes been treated in a genus of its own, as Agriocharis ocellata, but the differences between this species and Meleagris gallopavo are too small to justify generic segregation.
A more colourful bird than its northern relative the Wild Turkey, this species has a much more restricted distribution and is only found in the subtropical lowlands of the Yucatan peninsula in southeast Mexico, Belize and Guatemala.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/O/Ocellated-Turkey.htm   (416 words)

  
 Field Notes on Winter Flocks of the Ocellated Turkey (Agriocharis Ocellata)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Prior to this report, no mention of anting in Agriocharis has been made in the literature.
Steadman 1980) is one of the most conspicuous members of the avifauna in the Peten region, relatively little is known about its natural history.
This note aims to help bridge this gap by supplying details from 25 h of observation made between 14 and 25 January 1979 on the same flocks that Steadman and his colleagues studied at Tikal National Park, Guatemala.
elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Auk/v098n02/p0396-p0398.html   (1909 words)

  
 Is Turkey Kosher?
Currently there are seven main varieties (subspecies) of domesticated turkey, all of which are flightless and descend from the Mexican and US wild turkey.
Only the kosher status of Meleagris gallopavo will be discussed; Agriocharis ocellata has never been domesticated and its kosher status is undetermined.
The terminus ante quem for the discovery of domesticated turkeys by Europeans is the Cortez expedition of 1519.
www.kashrut.com /articles/turk_part5   (2938 words)

  
 agriocharis ocellata - OneLook Dictionary Search
We found 4 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word agriocharis ocellata:
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Agriocharis ocellata : LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
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 Ocellated turkey - Turkey, Birds, Turkey, Bird Pictures, Catalog, Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Binomial name Meleagris ocellata Cuvier, 1820 The Ocellated Turkey (Meleagris The Ocellated Turkey was probably also domesticated by the Mayans.
If we were to designate one bird as the most representative of the Mundo Maya, it would be the Ocellated Turkey, called Cutz by the Maya.
Both sexes of the Ocellated turkey have bright blue, smooth, bare heads and Ocellated Turkey is being hunted for sport in Belize and Mexico (see various
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 agriocharis - OneLook Dictionary Search
We found 6 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word agriocharis:
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Phrases that include agriocharis: agriocharis ocellata, genus agriocharis
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 The Wild Turkey Zone: Wild Turkey History
There are two types of wild turkey, both of which are strong fliers (up to 55 mph for short distances) and among the fastest runners (15-30 mph).
One type is originally from Yucatan and Guatemala (Agriocharis ocellata; family - Phasianidae) and the other is from Mexico and the US (Meleagris gallopavo; family -Phasianidae).
Fossil records have shown they were once much more widespread.
www.wildturkeyzone.com /wildturkey/species.htm   (933 words)

  
 Resources on the Ocellated Turkey from academic institutions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
: The spectacular ocellated turkey (Agriocharis ocellata) ranges, still wild,
ARTFL Project: Webster Dictionary, 1913: Ocellated turkey (Zoöl.), the wild turkey of Central America (Meleagris ocellata).
Taxacom Listserv Archives for the Current Month: Agriocharis...
mongabay.org /conservation/Ocellated_Turkey.htm   (454 words)

  
 Ocellated Turkey - educational resources
or Meleagris ocellata is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Lower Risk/Near Threatened.
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animals.mongabay.com /iucn/NO/Ocellated_Turkey.html   (99 words)

  
 fowls-a-birds-msg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
>Agriocharis ocellata is the turkey of Mexico and Central America which was
>sources, most of our domesticated turkeys are varieties of A. ocellata.
I recall having read that these American domesticated turkeys probably
www.florilegium.org /files/ANIMALS/fowls-a-birds-msg.html   (10485 words)

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