What came first the bird or the country?

The turkey is a pre-Colombian New World bird.

It’s thought that Turkey was named after the people the Turks.

Early European settlers mistook the turkey for a type of guineafowl that was imported through Turkey. Wikipedia(bird).

It doesn’t look like the markup likes that link. it is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey(bird)_

But was the country named after the bird or was the bird named after the country?

@lilikoi Neither. Read my answer.

So the country was named after the people?

@lilikoi Yes.

@lilikoi As are many countries. (e.g. England, France)

The bird of course.“Don’t you know about the bird?Well everybody knows that the bird is the word”

@lilikoi The bird was named for the country which was named for the people.

As I was going to Saint Ives…

An interesting side note. Ben Franklin was all for making the turkey the national bird for the USA.
But the carrion scavenger eagle won out.

@davidbetterman At least it’s not the common loon.

@erichw1504 I would have preferred the boobie Ooops, not that one…this Boobie!

@davidbetterman Yes, that first was actually a pair of boobies in an artificial habitat.

@davidbetterman those look delicious.

LOL @both of you!

@davidbetterman What’s funny is that I can view the first image, but the second one is blocked at work.

@erichw1504 that is too funny!