In my opinion the honor goes not to Lydia, but to this lovely lady. These photos were taken in January 2020, when she and her bevy of bodyguards (who always stuck close as if to hide her bright-white feathers from predators) decided to hang out in a Yorkshire neighborhood backyard for a few days.

This is a “smoke morph,” and it occurs in less than 1% of the wild turkey population. It’s a genetic mutation caused by a single gene, and it only happens when a wild turkey carries two of these genes. Her children may have normal coloring but they will still carry one recessive gene.

So, even though this is a very rare occurrence, the chances are pretty high that the Jamestown wild turkey set could one day produce another smoke morph.