As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Friday, 26 April 2019

Tennessee hunter kills bizarre albino turkey in Rutherford County - (Just had to kill it though eh?)


Mike Organ  Nashville Tennessean
Published 12:28 PM EDT Apr 13, 2019
It's being called the "turkey of a lifetime," by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.
That's how TWRA officials described a rare leucistic gobbler killed by a hunter in Rutherford County last week.
Cameron Bond of Warren County shot the unusual bird on April 6.
A rare leucistic turkey was shot by a hunter in Rutherford County.
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
Leucism in birds, according to the TWRA, is a loss of pigmentation. It is a genetic abnormality.
The beard on the turkey Bond killed was dark and the back feathers still held some color. 
Bond said the turkey weighed 20 pounds. It's beard measured nine and one-half inches and its spurs were .75.
Spring turkey hunting season in Tennessee opened on March 31 and continues through May 1.
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