They are fairly common in England. I have seen patchy black and white
Blackbirds in Oxford and Liverpool in the UK.
Mind you we had a couple of wholly white Black Swans (not albino as the bill
as the normal pink) inland from Brisbane some years ago.
Tim Murphy
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From:
Behalf Of Dave Torr
Sent: Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:59 AM
To: Peter Shute (NUW)
Cc: Birding-Aus
Subject: White blackbirds
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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