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Was hanging around with goldfinches, never seen one before. I have now been told it is a Leucistic American Goldfinch. Lecism is described as: "... birds with unexpected plumage characteristics, many of which are birds that lack pigment in certain feathers. This condition is known as “leucism” and can take the form of a few white feathers here and there or a completely pale bird."
Urban backyard
Spotted on our finch feeder this morning.
Spotted on Nov 13, 2012
Submitted on Nov 13, 2012
10 Comments
The overall body shape and particularly the beak indicate that it is an escaped canary, not a goldfinch.
This is an escaped Canary. Goldfinches have black on the wings and tail and a leucistic bird would be white in that area (i.e. the yellow would not replace the black).
He is beautiful!
Hello karlk25. - very nice shots. - actually excellent series of shots.
This is very , very, interesting ...
Yes- I was thinking about this since yesterday - couldn't think ofthe term - knew it wasn't "melanistic" nor albino. Lovely little bird- glad you solved the mystery, and hope it sticks around for a while!
I just googled and its a leucistic American goldfinch, found exact photos as yours. Mystery solved! Could you please add to rare color morphs mission.
No it's not a canary, I don't think a canary would last long given the temperature has been down to minus 8 C overnight recently
interesting...a finch?
color morph.
Someone's pet canary, or some color morph. Interested to see what others say.