Randy R. wrote -

>Tweeters:
>I was just talking to my Bro-inlaw Ray Sturney in Hazelton B.C. which is in
>Northwest B.C.. He got a call about a white crane north of there in the
>Kispiox Valley. He went to check it out and found about 300 Sandhill Cranes
>with one that is all white except for the red on the head. He was would like
>to know if anyone to the south had noticed a white Sandhill Crane this
>spring.

Randy - The incidence of albinisim in Sandhill Cranes is apparently
quite low. I would ask that you try to get your bro-in-law to confirm
that the bird is indeed a Sandhill and not a Whooping Crane. And before
someone pipes up that this is not possible, there was a Whooper seen
near Quesnel, BC, a few years ago.

Jack Bowling
jbowling at direct.ca