[cobirds] Re: leucistic turkey in Big Thompson canyon

I also thought about a domestic wild hybrid.  I don't know.  It was around for a few days and is now gone.  We can get up to 60 wild ones in our yard and had never seen a white one before.

On Thursday, April 1, 2021 at 1:33:19 PM UTC-6 adrian...@gmail.com wrote:

I saw 4 (3F 1M) leucistic turkeys in Pueblo earlier this week. I Googled the phenomena when I returned home and apparently experts think 1 in 100 can be leucistic with females being more common.

Here's my eBird checklist with a couple pictures of the tom and 1 of the females...

https://ebird.org/checklist/S84330906

Adrian Lakin,

Mead, CO

On Thursday, April 1, 2021 at 12:46:07 PM UTC-6 Jeff Kehoe wrote:

Last week we had a white turkey show up, mixing in with the usual gang of wild turkeys.  Could it be leucistic? Any thoughts?

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