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White blackbirds

To: "Peter Shute (NUW)" <>
Subject: White blackbirds
From: "Dave Torr" <>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:58:35 +1000
This is probably leucism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucism). There was a
similar blackbird in Werribee (near Altona) last year, and I have seen
leucistic New Holland Honeyeaters at Pt Cook as well

On 24/10/06, Peter Shute (NUW) <> wrote:

I've recently been seeing a blackbird with some white tail feathers, here
in
Altona, Melbourne. I've also seen a couple of blackbirds over the last 20
years or so that were all white.  At least they looked, acted and sounded
like blackbirds.  How common are these variations?

Peter Shute

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