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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: Leslie Kinrys on December 30, 2013, 03:51:19 PM

Title: Unusual Trumpeter Bluffers Park Dec. 29l
Post by: Leslie Kinrys on December 30, 2013, 03:51:19 PM

We were checking out the marina area at Bluffers Park. We saw a group of  14 adult and juvenile Trumpeter Swans. But, there was one unusual looking swan. It looked like a Trumpeter, but it had yellow legs. Sorry, we didn't have a camera. I looked up swans with yellow legs and found the Trumpeter Swan Society site. I looked under juvenile identification. I read that a leucystic Trumpeter, which is rare, is born white, doesn't go through the gray plummage phase as a juvenile and has bright yellow legs as an adult. I thought others might want to take a look and get some pics of this bird.

Title: Re: Unusual Trumpeter Bluffers Park Dec. 29l
Post by: thouc on December 30, 2013, 04:04:06 PM

There is a picture and discussion of this bird here: http://outdoorontario.net/birds/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=11265&p=46677&hilit=trumpeter+yellow#p46677

Title: Re: Unusual Trumpeter Bluffers Park Dec. 29l
Post by: Leslie Kinrys on December 30, 2013, 05:22:52 PM

Thanks for that info. I must have missed it.