“ El Dorado Gallo Pavo ” An explaination of this play on words. Right out of the gate we just have to point out that Oscar is a “REAL Turkey” when it comes to dealing with people and the everyday events of life! Then he also had the misfortune to have the family name of “Gallo” which is the first sylable of the specific descriptor in the scientific name for Turkey... Meleagris gallopavo. Added on top of that is the fact that the Spanish word for Turkey is “Pavo” and the last two words in Oscar's nickname were basically preordained. The appellation “El Dorado” means “The Golden” and this works on so many levels that it boggles one's mind to even think about it. Let us count the ways... 1. The group's name being "The Golden Boys", 2. His name being Oscar which is a golden trophy awarded to the very best of a category (being the VERY BEST TURKEY isn't a complement of course) and 3. Oscar was born in Golden City, Missouri to Greek immigrants who baked baklava and other Greek pastries in an old converted gasoline/service station. Turkey ... A large North American bird (Meleagris gallopavo) that has brownish plumage and a bare, wattled head and neck and is widely domesticated for food.

Fact Not Blarney Meleagris gallopavo is composed of the names of three different birds, none of them the turkey. Meleagris was the ancient Greek name of the Guinea fowl. For hundreds of years, European naturalists believed the turkey was a kind of Guinea fowl, for reasons that are not entirely clear. Gallopavo was one of the early Spanish names for the turkey (often spelled gallipavo). Gallo- comes from gallus, the Latin word for the common barnyard fowl (chicken), Gallus domesticus. And -pavo comes from Latin word for the blue peacock, whose scientific name is Pavo cristatus. The Spanish apparently gave it that name because the bird combined several traits of the two birds.