Dear Tweeters: Thought you might be interested in the fact that for the past
two winters there has been a white double-crested cormorant on the lake where
I live in Gainesville Florida. I am pretty sure that it is not an albino, as
everything else--eyes, bill, feet etc. looks normal--just the feathers are
white. In fact, this past winter there was even some dark mixed into the
feathers so that it was a dirty black. It stays much later in the spring than
the other dc corms that winter on the lake and is pretty much shunned by
them. Occasionally it will swim along in a group fishing, but most often is
alone. If it perches on a favorite snag it will get chased away. One does
feel a little sorry for it.
Mary

Mary Landsman
Gainesville FL





In a message dated 6/28/99 6:53:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
tvulture at halcyon.com writes:

<< Dear Tweets,

I was asked to post this from someone not on the list. If anyone would
care to comment/answer his questions, I will pass these along to the
gentleman. I've never seen a white cormorant and thought it would be quite
a site seeing it flying under the water; hopefully his photos will show
something.

Diann MacRae, Bothell, tvulture at halcyon.com

>I am an amateur birder living in Seattle. On June 20th, in the Brown's
Point area, just north of >Commencement Bay, I watched for over an hour an
albino cormorant feeding in a sheltered >stretch. I don't know the
species, however the sighting was unambiguous as from my vantage >point I
could watch its white form fly underwater and I was able to get a few
pictures of the >individual fairly close on the surface. Would this
constitute a rare sighting, an albino surviving >to adult or sub-adulthood?
And is it likely the same individual would return to the same >feeding
grounds?
>Sincerely, Eric Noah
>>