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Unusual bird sighting

To: "Allan and Hazel Wright" <>
Subject: Unusual bird sighting
From: "Philip Veerman" <>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 22:51:05 +1000
It looks to me like a white cockatiel. A common domestic mutant. Not a hybrid. Most likely someone's escaped pet, although there is no reason why such mutants would not occasionally occur in the wild. There is nothing about captivity that creates mutants, they are just selected when they occur.
 
Philip
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