From what I remember the dictionary definition of albino is any animal with white pigmentation which deviates from it's natural colour... So an all white leucistic is still an albino as well an animal of dilute colour.. I once went to see an albino Cassowary expecting a pink-eyed white bird, but instead found it had a pale ginger body with pale not quite pink eyes..
Many people claim an albino must be pure white and pink-eyed, but that is not the case...
Thanks Andy... Your right.. Of course no pigmentation.. But as you know the lack of pigmentation results in a white animal.. I'm just pointing there are degrees of albinism.. They don't have to pure white pink-eyed to be an albino...I'd go back to the dictionary if I were you, they are white because they have NO pigmentation.
Thanks Andy... Your right.. Of course no pigmentation.. But as you know the lack of pigmentation results in a white animal.. I'm just pointing there are degrees of albinism.. They don't have to pure white pink-eyed to be an albino...
They need to lack pigmentation everywhere, including the eyes which somehow manifests in the red colour. Without the pink eyed appearance, even a totally white bird is luecistic, not albinistic.
In an albino, even the bill and the legs, lack pigmentation just like the Jackdaw here, we just can't see quite enough of the eyes but I'd guess that it is an albino rather than leucistic.
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They need to lack pigmentation everywhere, including the eyes which somehow manifests in the red colour. Without the pink eyed appearance, even a totally white bird is luecistic, not albinistic.
In an albino, even the bill and the legs, lack pigmentation just like the Jackdaw here, we just can't see quite enough of the eyes but I'd guess that it is an albino rather than leucistic.
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Think you were slightly more right before you edited your post ... very disappointed :-O
Bizarrely, given the subject, this just popped up on twitter -
https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/896774839087792128