Tom,

As far as I could tell it was entirely white, including all the tail feathers.

Gene.

At 04:41 PM 9/8/98 -0700, you wrote:
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>On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Eugene Hunn wrote:
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>[snip..]
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> 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.
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>Tweets--
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> 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."
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> Is that the definitive word?
>
> does *partial* mean that no albinism occurs in immie birds?
>
> Tom
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