10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Long before that time Mexican domesticated Turkeys had been adopted by Native Americans in the American Southwest as well. They became known as “Turkie Fowl” (spelling varies) because they were coming from the general direction of Turkey. They may have also had hunting dogs with them as well.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 253

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2020

The Famous Grouse brand was founded in 1896 in Perth and adopted its now-legendary grouse logo sometime in the early twentieth century, an image first drawn by Phillippa Gloag, the daughter of the company owner. And with his striking jet-black plumage, he’s the perfect fowl to represent this darker, smoky offering from The Famous Grouse. .

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Sheep Branding Ireland Fowl 260

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Vintage Champagne ads are another story though, with a handful of old examples featuring domestic fowl, as in this rooster poster… …or gamebirds, as in this especially attractive label from pioneering California winemaker Paul Masson, which features a partridge (and its eye): But this was all very long ago.

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Fowl France Birds Chickens 113

10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2018

And that’s not all: I’m even relaxing my unwritten prohibition against featuring domestic fowl. I really felt like I was sticking my neck out there for a bit – not always a wise decision in France for fowl or royalty. I suspect I won’t be the only one drinking French wine this weekend. So I survived.

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2016 France Chickens Fowl 108

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Ever the moral perfectionist, Franklin argued that the turkey was a much more honorable and determined fowl, and suggested the bird – as an “original Native of America” – would make a decidedly more fitting avian mascot for the United States (seemingly implying – incorrectly – that the Bald Eagle is not an indigenous New World species).

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Bald Eagle 2017 United States Turkey 169