Subject: red-winged blackbird with white tail feathers
Date: Jan 27 07:40:33 1998
From: Laurel Cheap - lcheap at cac.washington.edu



>Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 10:23:46 EST
>From: TA96SSDCM at aol.com
>To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
>Subject: Rusty Blackbird
>
[snip]
>In the flock of Red-Wings is a Male with all white inner tail
>feathers and black outers, very unusal and pretty.
[snip]

Wow, I was sure I saw one just like this on Spencer Island a month or
two ago but a fellow birder refused to believe me. It's nice to know
that there's a chance I wasn't totally insane. :)

Does anyone know what causes this type of coloration?

Laurel Cheap
Lake Stevens, WA
lcheap at u.washington.edu