Interesting day in the field yesterday.....PICS UP

[Mike Oxbig]

Cool. I saw a huge black wolf while hunting last year but never a black yotte or an albino turkey. Do you live near a nuclear plant?

 

[phil03]

thanks for the pics, and as far as the "white" turkey, i think they are callled a silver fase or something along those lines.

 

[manitou210]

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Connaught Range in Ottawa

 

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From the NWTF website:

# Color Phases: A few wild turkeys grow unusually colored feathers. These are known as color phases. There are four color phases, a smokey gray color phase, a melanistic color phase (all black), an erythritic color phase (reddish coloration) and an albino color phase (very rare).

There is one that I see on a fairly regular basis just about a mile down the road from where I live. She is usually with a flock of normal coloured turkeys, and once I saw her with 10 or so regular coloured poults with it, alone in a field.