leucistic turkey in Big Thompson canyon

[Jeff Kehoe]

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

[Ira Sanders]

An escaped domestic?

Ira Sanders

On Thu, Apr 1, 2021, 12:46 PM Jeff Kehoe <jeff....@gmail.com> 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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[Adrian Lakin]

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

[Jeff Kehoe]

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.

[Jeff Kehoe]

The other thing is we live out in the boonies and I'm not aware of anybody nearby that has turkeys (they may though).  A domestic may have had to walk a long way to join our gang.  Could be though.