We have often had Blackbirds with white feathers (back, tail, breast or
wings) around the place in Ivanhoe (Vic). Museum Victoria has a pure
white Blackbird specimen, very beautiful, and an almost all-white Song
Thrush specimen, with the breast speckles and no other colour (I believe
this one was captured as a chick and survived for years in an aviary).
There used to be Willie Wagtails with part-albinism at the WTP
stockyards, and last March I saw a part-white Welcome Swallow at
Paradise Road. Very striking.
I have seen several white or part-white Magpies, and photographed one,
which looked remarkably like a stray plastic bag in a paddock.
A few years back we had an abnormal Common Mynah with very pale brown
feathers - like very milky coffee - at Banksia St Bridge, Heidelberg.
All these are passerines, but I believe albinism or leucism can crop up
in any species.
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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