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WHITE HEADED BLACKBIRD
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WHITE HEADED BLACKBIRD
Here he is as promised, one of last years brood i think.
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RE: WHITE HEADED BLACKBIRD
You DEFINITELY have a leucistic something or other there!!! That yellow bill usually means Robin or Starling, but I don't it's either of those; the REST of the body markings don't corelate with those species. The other possibility is that the bill color is changed also. That could open up the possibilities some. Let's see what the experts here think.
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RE: WHITE HEADED BLACKBIRD
Where are you located, blackbirdw? Are you in the U.K.? If so then you are correct because that DOES look like a U.K. blackbird. My son-in-law is from Scotland and when my daughter was dating him she would send me TONS of pictures of U.K. birds, PLUS I have a lot of birder friends in the U.K. and we exchange pics everyday.
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RE: WHITE HEADED BLACKBIRD
I may be wrong but doesn't the bill lose color too? Kind of like the pink eyes. Also, notice that the legs are lighter than the legs of the other bird in the picture.
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RE: WHITE HEADED BLACKBIRD
I`am in the UK, Lancashire, the bird is here every morning with the other BlackBird, i think its a freack the legs are a light colour and the beack does look big.
if you zoom in on the pic you will also see black speckels in the white head around the neck area, these are genuine pictures i have more and can get more every day.
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RE: WHITE HEADED BLACKBIRD
That explains it, then You DO have a leucistic Blackbird, a relative of our American Robins, which incidentally tend to have a lot of leucistic individuals. Most of us here, are in the U.S. or Canada, and that's what threw me off at first. I saw the picture and thought it looked like a U.K. Blackbird. We have several DIFFERENT kinds of Blackbirds here. Leucistc means pale or more often PARTIALLY albino and that's what you have there!. This is the first leucistic U.K. bird I have seen. My ancestors immigrated from Yorkshire to Virginia, in America, in the late 1680's.
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RE: WHITE HEADED BLACKBIRD
I will try to get a Video today, it always flys very low like the other Blackbird and never gets to far away from the other Blackbird
[:)] i have not seen it eating worms yet like the other Blackbirds, some times it goes quite fast @ low altitude and in a split second like that you think its a seagull that has just flashed past, ! in this pic the bird looks bigger than it actually is, Oh and many thanks for your expert Knowledge
[:)] ? What will happen if it mates and has young ones
[:)] ? a full Squadron, if so i will call them the CAMBUSTERS
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