I got very excited about a fairywren I saw in the Perth hills recently. For a
while I thought I had the blue form of White-winged Fw in a place they haven’t
been recorded. A close look at my photos showed it wasn’t a brilliant white
wing I’d seen but the back - usually rufous or chestnut in Red-winged Fw. I
assume that bird, which was associating with a family of Red-winged Fw, was a
leucistic individual, and had none of the rufous. / chestnut pigmentation
usually present in the species.
Russell Woodford
> On 17 Oct 2018, at 8:32 am, Philip Veerman <> wrote:
>
> Birds of many species are occasionally found with unusual white patches - or
> actually lack of normal colour. Maybe white is the most common of the
> possible range of colour variants. No reason to invoke a hybrid idea. The
> word is leucistic. Lots of internet information on this. Such as this:
> https://www.birdnote.org/blog/2018/04/why-bird-part-white-leucism
>
> Philip
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Birding-Aus On Behalf Of
> Bill Stent
> Sent: Wednesday, 17 October, 2018 7:41 AM
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> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Odd Miner, Melbourne
>
> Walking the dog along Kooning Creek this morning, we came across a weird
> looking Miner. In a colony of Noisy Miners, it has a head just like a Noisy,
> including the half black cap, but when it flies, there are large white
> patches on its upper wings, as though it has white primaries. When folded it
> shows as a white stripe like a Dusky Woodswallow.
>
> Just a weird individual, some sort of leukistic (if that’s the right term),
> or maybe a hybrid? The nearest Yellow-throated is about 500km away, and they
> don’t have white wings either.
>
> Bill
>
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