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By the description, I don't know that it is
leucism. It seems to be melanin deficient, rather than yellow
excess.
Philip
What causes
?leucism? in birds?
There was a
leucistic Superb Fairy Wren at the You Yangs in Victoria last year (possibly
still there). It was a really amazing bird to see, and almost seemed like
a new species.
The You Yangs is only
50km from Point Cook, so would environmental factors play a part in the
development of this syndrome?
Peter
Carol Probets
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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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