Tres forte concentration de pigment jaune chez cet individu. Xantho.
Great blue heron caught a snake that caught a frog, the heron only wanted the frog and released the snake!
A 1967 snapshot in time, back before species protection and the TNC preserve. Per Kauffeld-inspired reverential respect, we carefully photographed and released these two specimens---which were found within 100 feet of each other. Golden memories....
Leucistic individual.
Red-winged Blackbird
near Stewardson, Illinois
1 June 1989
I'm posting this record just for the general interest of a Red-winged Blackbird with one white wing. Whether a partial albino, or a partial leucistic bird, I'm not sure. A local farmer told my wife and me that this bird had been on his farm for three summers. The bird left in the fall with the other Red-wingeds and came back in the spring. I watched it for about 30 minutes. It vocalized like any other Red-winged BB and interacted with other Red-wingeds normally. It was pretty flashy to see in flight, however. Three shots posted. These images scanned from old color slides.
I heard a loud call from a bird and found this female Tarantula had come out of her burrow and grabbed this bird.
leucistic hawk. Just north of Globe on AZ 188.
Fantastic and lucky to see on our trip to NE side of Lake Roosevelt this beautiful hawk. I thought it was a barn owl or white owl of some sort, but no, it's a hawk.
It flew from one pole to another as we followed it to get the shots and then few off into the desert.
All black. Small white/grey area on left rear, rump, likely cause by an older incident.
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Thousand steps trailhead
Was hanging out with other ruddy ducks
Western fence lizard basking on a tree trunk. The lizard was covered in fungal spores, which gave it a yellow coloration.
I guess it's an an individual that escaped from captivity with albinism. Maybe a Mandarin Duck hybrid.
an unusual silver colored male, have put some with normal one beside him to highlight the differences
Albino deer
very pretty buck
Albino - female -
a locally celebrity for more than 10 years
Piebald White-tailed Deer
One of TWO (!) leucistic individuals seen by many. This is the whiter of the two. Probably in the same family group; normally colored individuals in the group as well.
Leucistic acorn woodpeckers (2 there)
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!)
I'm mostly making this observations for the little yellow one. I've taken a zillion photos of him.
Apologies for the dust spots in the pics.
(Rubber Ducky #1)
Presenta Leucismo. Conviviendo con Pato Mexicano, P.Cucharón Norteño.
There's always a huge flock of /Anas platyrhynchos/ here. This single male individual has always stood out from the rest due to its lack of colour. It has also a yellow ring on one of its feet.
Leucistic RTHA that has been in this area for a bit.