[Avodah] Is Turkey Kosher?

[Harry Weiss]

> From: Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org>
>> On 19/11/2010 2:16 PM, Jonathan Baker wrote:
>>> But what's a "genuine mesorah"?
>
>> Back to Moshe Rabbenu.  That is the premise of the whole business of
>> requiring a mesorah for birds.
>
> Does it need to go that far back? What if the mesorah is only from
> before our fear that we might mis-read the simanim?

I remember a shiur of Kosher tidbits on OU Radio  a while back that
addressed the Turkey issue (among others) and mentioned that besides the
simanim and the fact that it has been eaten for hundreds of years there is
one other factor.  There  was an Amora brought that claimed to be familiar
with all of the prohibited species of fowl.  Since he obviously could not
have been familiar with Turkey, that would indicate that it was not a
prohibited species.