What would cause turkeys to be intelligent?

In the spirit of Thanksgiving (US) let's tackle a fun one.
I'm defining "intelligent" in this situation as "at least on par with hunter-gatherer humans, able to communicate"

What natural, environmental pressures would cause turkeys to evolve intelligence, based on the pressures that cause intelligence in the real world, assuming up until this point that turkeys have been developing as normal?

This is somewhat on-topic as it provides useful information for worldbuilders seeking to design intelligent avian species.

Not a dupe of this question because I am asking about a specific species, not general avians, and I am focused primarily on how the environment would change the evolution, not how the morphology would change the species over time - which the other Q does not address.

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