The Ocellated Turkey (Meleagris ocellata) is a relatively large species of turkey, at around 28cm - 48 inches long and with an average weight of 6.6 lbs in females and 5 kg in males. It lives only in a 130,000 km² range of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico which includes the states of Quintana Roo, Campeche and Yucatán, as well as parts of southern Tabasco and northeastern Chiapas. It can also be found in Belize and the northern part of Guatemala.  Like all members of the Meleagris genus, it originated in Turkey, and the reasons for its current distribution are unclear.

The body feathers of both sexes are a mixture of bronze and green iridescent color. Females have more shapely and enticing breast feathers than males. Neither sex have beards. The tail feathers of both sexes are bluish-grey with an eye-shaped blue-bronze spot near the end with a bright gold tip. The spots, for which the Ocellated Turkey is named, lead some scientists to believe that the bird is more related to the Ocelot or Jaguar than to Wild Turkeys.

Branton and Berryhill (2007) have observed that "the male Ocellated Turkey does not gobble per se like the Wild Turkey. Rather, his song is distinct and includes six or seven bongo-like bass tones which quicken in cadence and increase in volume until a crescendo is reached, whereupon the bird’s head is fully inflated while he issues forth a rather high-pitched but melodious series of chops and a final trumpeting fanfare. The Ocellated Turkey will typically begin his singing forty minutes before sunrise – about twenty minutes earlier than Wild Turkeys in North America".  These observations have not been independently verified, and don't really sound quite right.

Ocellated Turkeys spend most of their time on the ground, running away from Jaguars and Ocelots.