Subject: Re: random notes
Date: Sep 8 16:41:20 1998
From: Tom Foote - footet at elwha.evergreen.edu




On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Eugene Hunn wrote:

[snip..]

A pure white plumaged albino Red-tailed Hawk was hanging around the
upper end of the lake up to the Fish Lake Guard Station. Had a yellow
bill. Quite striking.

Tweets--

I don't recall in the extended thread on albinism of a couple
years back whether the question came up as to whether it
was possible for it to occur in a hatch year bird. I don't
know if Gene got a good look at the tail of this bird.
Wheeler & Clark *A Photographic Guide to N. American Raptors*
p. 89 plate RT16 shows a nearly completely white redtail
but he considered it a partial as it had one feather in the
wing that was not white..he also wrote

"partial albinos occur throughout range but only
as adults."

Is that the definitive word?

does *partial* mean that no albinism occurs in immie birds?

Tom