I have hunted turkeys for several years and have shot many i once shot a white turkey. These turkeys like the one in this picture is not rare. I work with the nwtf every now and then, what they tell people is that these birds should be shot. The reason being is because this is not a phase this is what they call cross breeding between a wild turkey and a tame turkey. Now this could of happened two was someone released a tame turkey or the wild turkey came in to a barn yard with tame turkeys. So all this is a bad case of mixed genetics.