A Blackbird mutation
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Nice! We have a grey/silver Jackdaw at work, I never have a camera handy when he is about though.
Its a genetic issue known as leucistic its fairly common in crow species. I have a carrion crow that visits the field behind my home where it has it on its wings
When I was a kid we had an albino blackbird that visited the back garden regularly for a while, and a one legged un for a time too.
Under average circumstances, what should that blackbird's head color be?
More common in our mid-west, we have a yellow-headed blackbird.
There is a genetic lineage of white ravens on the islands of Haida Gwaii, just off our west coast.
Several very dramatic new pictures in the last month or so.
More common in our mid-west, we have a yellow-headed blackbird.
There is a genetic lineage of white ravens on the islands of Haida Gwaii, just off our west coast.
Several very dramatic new pictures in the last month or so.
RV, the Blackbird in question is a Thrush, Turdus merula.
Perhaps the equivalent of your American Robin Turdus migratorius.
when my children were little, we had a resident black bird with a white spot at side of its head and my eldest who was 3 at the time, couldn't say "sp", it was "f" so was known as "fot" and every since all black birds in our home are know as "Fot's"!
They aren't an exciting-looking bird but have a wide variety of songs and can imitate most other birds. If one is singing on a summer's day and you whistle a tune at it, quite often it will sing back the same tune.
Not to worry. I always enjoy seeing what sorts of wildlife inhabit different areas.
Got a lead to a local photographer in NYorks while I was there.
Bought a color canvas print of a Red Grouse in the heather to hang on my wall here.
I think you all would enjoy watching the male Rufous humming birds fight and scream at eachother.
Mostly display but I have actually seen them hit eachother on a few occassions.
Then we will go game-spotting for all the 4-legged things, the cats and bigger.
Got a lead to a local photographer in NYorks while I was there.
Bought a color canvas print of a Red Grouse in the heather to hang on my wall here.
I think you all would enjoy watching the male Rufous humming birds fight and scream at eachother.
Mostly display but I have actually seen them hit eachother on a few occassions.
Then we will go game-spotting for all the 4-legged things, the cats and bigger.
I saw this one in the garden a few years ago. Typically I had the wrong lens on the camera so only got a quick distant pic. Made me wonder if the white makes them more of a target for predators or if they get treated like magpies.
I'll guess that among tree branches against the sky, that's pretty good break-up camo.
But then again, why don't they all look like that, it it's so good?
I may not norice but the change may not affect behaviour = species character.
The humming birds have just arrived this week, a flight of some 4600+km from their wintering grounds in SE Mexico.
All in full breeding plumage. The male Rufous are rusty with a bib front of blinding red/gold iridescent feathers.
Too fast for my cruddy little camera.
But then again, why don't they all look like that, it it's so good?
I may not norice but the change may not affect behaviour = species character.
The humming birds have just arrived this week, a flight of some 4600+km from their wintering grounds in SE Mexico.
All in full breeding plumage. The male Rufous are rusty with a bib front of blinding red/gold iridescent feathers.
Too fast for my cruddy little camera.
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