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April 20, 2010

Mystery Albino Bird?

Wendy and I saw this bird flying around this morning. Have never seen anything like it up here before. Wendy thought it was someone's escaped pet. At first, I thought it was a white dove like they release from cages sometimes. I got a few quick overexposed shots of the bird as it circled. I brought up the "reds" in photoshop and it appears that the eye is red, which makes me think it has a color pigmentation problem, such as an albinism or leucism. It sort of looks to be shaped like a pigeon/dove, but I'm not really clear what it is.

Update: This is apparently just a white morph of the Domestic Pigeon (Columba livia), aka Rock Pigeon or Rock Dove.
Update 2: The red eye and pink feet do appear to indicate that this bird is an albino pigeon.

http://www.whatbird.com/forums/forums/150233/ShowThread.aspx#150233

Categories: Photos, Birds

Posted by Rob Kiser on April 20, 2010 at 11:31 AM

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