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Birding Reports => Southern Ontario Reports => Topic started by: Turtlebird on March 26, 2009, 07:47:58 PM

Title: Strange robin
Post by: Turtlebird on March 26, 2009, 07:47:58 PM

Hi, I spotted this unusual American Robin today in Woodstock Ontario.  It has a great deal of white, and it appears to also have red eyes!  Would one call this a "partial albino" or what??  

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y33/Corphish/strangerobin.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y33/Corphish/strangerobin2.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y33/Corphish/strangerobin3.jpg)

Title: Robin
Post by: JTF on March 26, 2009, 10:47:11 PM

Interesting find for sure. This would called a "Partially leucistic".

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Post by: Brian Bailey on March 27, 2009, 01:01:00 PM

Strange plumage, but believe it or not, a very similar photo was just posted on the OFO website:  http://www.ofo.ca/photoalbums/current/M ... istic.html (http://www.ofo.ca/photoalbums/current/March/slides/JM_American%20Robinleucistic.html)
Clearly not the same bird, but remarkably similar.

BB

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Post by: Neil on April 15, 2009, 07:51:00 PM

I've had a similar Robin in my yard for the past two years now. Though not as much white as yours, mine has a white band around its middle.
The neat thing about it is I never new if the Robins in my yard were the same ones year after year. But this one came back.

Neil