Earlier, the commission slapped a ban on all imports of live birds and untreated feathers from both Turkey and Romania, where bird flu was also detected.

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And for that, our winning turkey can thank his stellar campaign team led by Steve Willardsen, who is the Chairman of the National Turkey Foundation and raised this beautiful bird at Miller Farm in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

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Ash and Goldstein also caution that carving a wild turkey is different from carving a domestic bird.

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Although the bird thrived in pre-colonial America, the organization claims that turkey did not become a Thanksgiving staple until the 1800s.

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So we know they had venison, and they likely had some kind of water fowl goose, duck, swan or eagle. (Best not to think about those last two.) The fowl also could have been wild turkey, but if so, it was a very distant relative of that bird in the supermarket case today.

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The WHO has praised Turkey's efforts but another UN agency, the Food and Agriculture Organisation, has given a warning that bird flu could become endemic in the country.

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It was reported that a migratory bird - a common European bee-eater - caused alarm in a village in south-eastern Turkey after it was found dead in a field with a metal ring around its leg stamped "Israel".

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