Not only people become white when they get old

Ruud Altenburg
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Not only people become white when they get old

Post by Ruud Altenburg » Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:16 am

From Hannu:

Hi guys,

Just yesterday i got information about this case:

http://www.tarsiger.com/gallery/index.p ... 1&lang=fin

Read the story under photos. A couple of images of the same bird as 2cy at Tara by Visa:

http://www.helsinki.fi/~rauste/gulls/CE449.html

I've never heard about such before. We have had few cases where individuals where pale yellow-white already after hatching. It seems that usually these pale leucistic birds won't survive more than their first year(s). In this Finnish case particular the rings made possible to follow the very special plumage developement.

Do you happens to know any other case like this?

Hannu

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