Subject: corvid albinism
Date: Nov 20 08:41:42 1995
From: Mike Patrick - mike at violin1.radonc.washington.edu


For those interested in partial albinism of American Crows:

My wife and I sighted one with symmetrical white feathers - the two leading
primaries on each wing, and another pair of secondaries on each wing. Very
impressive to watch fly - evokes a magpie like image to me. This individual
was at Langely, on Whidbey Island, just where you would expect a crow to
be ;-) (foraging in the "shopping square" parking lot) about 2pm Sunday
the 19th.

Now, was this a Northwestern Crow or an American Crow? I'll not even get into
that!

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Michael Patrick - Staff Engineer
University of Washington, Radiation Oncology, Box 356043
1959 NE Pacific St.
Seattle, WA. 98195
mike at radonc.washington.edu
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