FreeLists / bristol-birds / [Bristol-Birds] partial albinos

[Stephanie Winterrowd <smw6g@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In response to the note below:


Actually, this is not true.  You can be a partial albino as a bird....it is 
different in different species.  A few species have no true, complete 
albinos known.

Attached is a photo of a partial albino red-tailed hawk from the Carolina 
Raptor Center in Charlotte, NC ( where I worked for a while).  This hawk 
came to the center much like the robin in the picture...lighter in color 
but with some patterning and brown in spots as well as brown eyes.  As the 
bird was permanently injured, the Center kept her for visitors to 
see.  With each successive molt over the years, she has become more and 
more white.

Cheers!
Stephanie Winterrowd



At 08:48 AM 3/6/2006, you wrote:
> Hate to be a pedant, but properly this is a leukocystic robin. You're 
> either all albino - all white feathers, pink skin and eyes - or you are 
> not. There are a lot of white birds, whether by species like Great Egret 
> or as genetic sports, but I can't recall an actual albino like your white 
> bunnies.
>
> James Brooks


Stephanie Morgan Winterrowd
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The University of Virginia's College at Wise
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