Almost 20 years ago I was regularly seeing a leucistic New Holland
Honeyeater in heathland at Mt Victoria (in the Upper Blue Mountains,
NSW). This bird was bright white all over, except for the normal
yellow on the wings and tail, and a faint smudge of grey around the
face where it's usually black. With this colour scheme the bird
almost glowed. It seemed to interact normally with the other New
Hollands. I still have a couple of slides of the bird which were
taken by a friend.
As chance would have it, a couple of years later I saw another
similar bird at Katoomba (which is 15km from Mt Vic).
Cheers
Carol
Carol Probets
Blue Mountains NSW
100km west of Sydney
Rohan Clarke wrote:
It is almost certainly a leucistic New Holland Honeyeater that I
found and photographed near the last carpark at the beach BBQ area
last week. It has a black head and yellow patches in the wing and
tail but the rest of the bird's plumage is cream. When I get around
to converting the images from raw format to jpg I'll send you some
record shots.
Regards
Rohan
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