Subject: albinism in juncos
Date: Mar 16 17:14:45 1995
From: Tom Foote - footet at elwha.evergreen.edu
Roger--
Last Friday, March 10, while ogling the black throated blue warbler in
Lola Smith's backyard here in Olympia, I saw a junco with white splotches
on its head.
Tom Foote footet at elwha.evergreen.edu
The Evergreen State College 866-6000 x6118
Olympia, WA 98505
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> On another note...
> The juncos with the white plumage anomalies (partial albinism?) are back. My
> wife banded one yesterday. That makes 9 different juncos with unusual white
> plumage patches that we have observed.
> She also observed a red-breasted sapsucker on our suet feeder. A somewhat rare
> occurance for our area.
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