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plain turkey

(Animals) Austral a bustard

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plain turkey - popular Australian game bird

Choriotis australis

bustard - large heavy-bodied chiefly terrestrial game bird capable of powerful swift flight; classified with wading birds but frequents grassy steppes

Choriotis, genus Choriotis - Australian bustard

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She served him a plain turkey leg each night for weeks and he confided in me that he was beginning to feel like Fred Flintstone.