Healesville Sanctuary still has "Alby" the all white Kookaburra. Originally
thought to be male until she laid 3 eggs and raised 3 normal coloured
Kookaburras.
She is a true albino with no pigment at all in any of her feathers beak or
eyes, the latter being pink.
Albinism (full or partial) I believe can occur in any species of bird or
mammal (not sure of reptiles, amphibians etc) and occurs approx one in 20
thousand.
I am not an expert on this subject so if any of the facts are incorrect, i
apologise.
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Some years ago I saw a Pied Oystercatcher in Tasmania which had large
amounts of white on the back - I posted a query on BirdingAus and someone
(in Brisbane from memory) sent me a photo of one from that area. So
certainly non-passerines can have these "problems" - and for many years
Healesville Sanctuary had an albino Kookaburra.
On 24/10/06, brian fleming <> wrote:
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?
>
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