Leucistic Dark-eyed Junco

It was a good challenge. :) Keep up the great spottings! Love the Meadowlark picture as well!

Thank you Jakubko. I had lots of help from project Noah to identify it.

Beautiful first spotting, Ajwerko! Welcome to Project Noah!

Thank you Liam. I appreciate the information.

Neat bird, by the way.

It's definitely leucistic.
Bill size and shape suggests Dark-eyed Junco, Junco hyemalis, over Field or Tree Sparrow, I believe.

Thank you for your comment Tom. I appreciate the help.

I agree with bee.jacbs, that this is a leucistic Dark-eyed Junco.
Nice spot and photo!

Thanks for the information Antonio. I didn't know that about the missions. I'll have to make sure I qualify.

Thank you for your comment Bee. I
just joined today and am still learning how this forum works. I appreciate the help I'm getting on identifying this bird.

Great capture Ajwerko,very interesting spotting ,congrats,thanks for sharing and welcome to Project Noah :-)
I hope you like the site us much we do,there are many features you can explore,first you should read the http://www.projectnoah.org/faq where you have all the "rules" of Project Noah :-)
You have also a blog http://blog.projectnoah.org/ where we post articles from our best specialists in the diferents areas and also storys of wildlife "adventures" from our most knowened users.
There are also the chats for elp in the id process and to comment your's and other's spottings.
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Enjoy your self,see you arround :-)

Very nice spotting. Thanks for sharing!

Based on bill color, shape, and normal amount of color variations I would say this is more likely to be a dark-eyed junco then a sparrow, but that is just my guess.

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Dark-...

Liam is the bird expert on Noah, he will know what it is :)
He will probably be on later today. What ever it is, it is pretty cool looking!

Thank you for your comments. I have had some people tell me it's a leucistic sparrow and others say its a leucistic junco or even a pale sparrow. I am not an experienced bird watcher so I don't know how to tell a junco from a sparrow except for the color, otherwise they look the same to me.

By the faint markings it could be a Leucistic Field Sparrow (Spizella pusilla)

Cool!!

I almost thought it was a junco but I've never seen one that light! Could be a leucistic form. Very cute bird, though! Welcome to Project Noah!

Could be a situation like this.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/171...