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Article: EYE-CATCHING ALBINO BIRDS; WHEN IT COMES TO PLUMAGE, WHITE REALLY STANDS OUT.(Stars)(Column)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- May 19, 2002
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Byline: Benjamin P. Burtt Contributing writer
From time to time I receive reports of birds that are either all white or have patches of white.
Peggy Finegan of New Berlin has a grackle in her yard that has a white patch on the back of its head, white on the leading edges of its wings and a white stripe down the center of its tail. I have a black capped chickadee that has a white patch in the center of its black cap.
Such birds lack certain color producing cells in their feathers. When the normal pigments are missing from only part of their plumage they are said to be partially albino.
Such birds are difficult to identify for they do not ...