xanthochromic Evening Grosbeak
first observed Jan. 1, 2023
Presenta Leucismo. Conviviendo con Pato Mexicano, P.Cucharón Norteño.
Adult bird with leucistic plumage.
Not too sure on ID here
Probable NRSW hybrid.
Possibilities include:
NRWSxCLSW
NRWSxCASW
NRWSxBARS
BARSxCLSW
CLSW
CASW
SRWS
SRWSxCASW
SRWSxCLSW
Uncommon leucistic individual?
melanistic
interesting article from the Wilson Bulletin from 1965 about a melanistic Pileated Woodpecker at Okefenokee in 1917:
https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/wilson/v077n04/p0404-p0405.pdf
This black thrasher was among normally-colored thrashers at a residence. The previous day, a thrasher got into the flue pipe of a wood stove at a residence in this area, where it remained trapped in the sooty pipe for at least several hours. We managed to coax it out through the wood stove and it flew out through the open back door and disappeared. @raystuart detected this "melanistic" individual the next morning and I got some shots of it. Seemed in good shape despite its sooty condition.
I wonder how many reported cases of melanism in wildlife might be attributed to similar circumstances?
I couldn't ID this bird (it looks very much like a Ruddy Duck in all ways but color), and so I posted it to the slocobirding group message board and Tom Edell explained that it is a melanistic Ruddy Duck. (Thanks, Tom!)
iNaturalist provided me with the name of the species.
Super cool leucistic RBGU
tentative ID, Chip sounded like Swamp.
On left in photo
This mask being used as nesting material in a Red-winged Blackbird nest says a lot about the mood of birding at Point Pelee this spring.
Very interesting coloration on this one. appears to be anerythistic, not melanistic
Killed and ate a gadwall. 10/10 very metal.
Rare on the Gulf coast.
Odd bird, which we concluded was either a Kamchatka Gull, an aberrant American Mew, or a Mew x Ring-billed. Odd characters included the obvious dark ring on the bill, distinct head streaking, pale eye, and Mew-like wingtip pattern. eBird checklist: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S2896958
Male and female foraging in wood next to trail. A major rarity for the area, maybe only the third known site for Ontario
06 Jan 2011.
Shark River Inlet, Monmouth Co, NJ.
This is a leucistic 1st cycle bird. The eye is bicolored, but the iris is still rather murky.