Scoring three strikes consecutively while bowling is called which of these birds?

The goal of bowling is simple - to knock down as many pins as possible. The more pins you knock down, the more points you score.

A single game consists of 10 “frames”, with each frame consisting of two chances to knock down ten pins (with the exception of the last frame).

Each pin you knock down earns you a point, while you can also score extra points by hitting “strikes”.

A strike is when you knock down all ten pins at your first attempt in a single frame.

Two strikes in a row are called a double, three strikes in a row are called a turkey, while four and five strikes in a row are called four/five-bagger(s) and so on and so forth. A strike is commonly indicated with an “X”.

Modern bowlers of any skill level have a reasonable shot of scoring a turkey in a game. Bowling was once significantly more challenging, however, so the achievement was a rarity. In earlier incarnations, lanes were uneven, pins were hand-set and (most importantly) pins were often weighted to make them harder to knock down.

To this end, tournaments in the 18th and 19th centuries featured prizes for outstanding accomplishments, from food baskets to hams and turkeys.

While no one really knows who or exactly where it started, tournament runners started giving out live turkeys to bowlers who managed to score three consecutive strikes. For a time, it was an especially common prize at holiday tournaments, chiefly in the United States.