FreeLists / bristol-birds / [Bristol-Birds] Partial albino American Robin photos in Bristol Birds photo gallery

["Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Area Birders:
You may visit the Bristol Bird Net Photo Gallery at the following URL and the 
first two photos in the upper left corner are pictures taken of a partial 
albino American Robin which is hanging out near a public school in Pulaski 
County, Va.  The photo was sent to two or three area natrualist Saturday and 
copies relayed to me.  


http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jwcoffeyy/album?.dir=/efd5&.view=t

I think I read in a newspaper article many years ago that one such albino 
similar to this one hatches in every 10,000 nests.   I don't know  how factual 
that statement is.

Without looking up the records,  I think I have seen at least three such birds. 
 One was in Bristol Virginia off Euclid Ave.;  one at Dr. Tom Green's home off 
Holston Ave. in Bristol Tennessee;  one near the generator building at the foot 
of South Holston Dam just a few years ago. 

Some years ago I banded the young in the nest of the Euclid Ave. partial albino 
female American Robin.  I was in hopes I might get a recovery to see what the 
young looked like.  I did get a recovery of one of the nestlings the following 
year a few miles away and it was reported to be a normal looking robin.

Enjoy the white robin :-)

Let's go birding......

Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
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