Male peafowl usually steal the show with their brightly-coloured tail feathers but a brilliant white peahen has been causing a stir in Swansea lately.
The ghostly-white bird has been spotted on a woodland trail in the Swansea Valley recently but has proven shy, often running off before people can get a picture of her.
People on social media have been sharing stories of seeing the bird and suggesting that it was a rare albino peahen that might have escaped from a private collection.
Images of the bird, which has a condition called leucism, were captured by Hayley Samuel, who didn't want to share the exact location she spotted it.
She said: "We live locally but it was a walk we hadn't taken before which had been recommended by others, so my husband and I were taking an early evening walk to explore more of the area where we live, while taking our daily exercise.
"We first saw the peahen running at a distance ahead of us but it quickly disappeared into the greenery, we were lucky enough to spot it in a tree across a field on our way back where I captured the images before it flew off again.
"I'd heard a couple of people local to the sea saying they'd seen one so it was lovely to see for ourselves.
"It was just lovely to see, I haven't seen a peacock so near to home probably since the days of Penscynor Wildlife Park.
"We very much love the area that we live and its wildlife, we are very lucky, so it's good to see a bird like that clearly thriving in the wild and we wonder how many more there might me."
Hayley added that she thought the bird might have escaped from a private collection at some point.
Other peafowl have been making headlines recently. A brightly-coloured peacock has been spotted strutting his stuff on top of houses and in gardens in Brackla, Bridgend, lately.
A spokeswoman for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said that the white peahen is not an albino peahen but has a genetic condition called leucism.
Birds with leucism suffer a partial loss of pigmentation, or colour, in their feathers which also wear out faster than feathers in normal birds.
Their eyes stay dark rather than turning red/pink like with albinism. Leucism can cause flight issues and, in extreme cases, the bird can be rejected by potential mates because of their colouration.
