Hello all, noobie here. I joined this board because I thought you folks might be interested in some photos of an albino buzzard we saw yesterday. We live on a mountain in South-Central Pennsylvania (Jacks Mountain), about 10 miles SW of Gettysburg, and we see buzzards every time we look out the windows. They perch on the rocks around our house and roost in nearby trees & rock outcrops.
In the 6 years we've lived here, we've seen lots of normally-colored turkey vultures and black vultures, but we have never seen a white buzzard until yesterday. The albino looks more like a black vulture than a turkey vulture to me, but it's hard to tell them apart from a distance. It did not have a red head like a turkey vulture, but the albinism might have caused it to have a white head. The feathers on top of the wings were pure white, and those on the wing bottom had a slightly greyish cast. I've noticed that the feathers on underside of the wings of normal buzzards are more greyish than the dark black feathers on top of the wings. Anyway, here are 4 of the photos. I'll post another 4 in a follow-up post. Any comments?
In the 6 years we've lived here, we've seen lots of normally-colored turkey vultures and black vultures, but we have never seen a white buzzard until yesterday. The albino looks more like a black vulture than a turkey vulture to me, but it's hard to tell them apart from a distance. It did not have a red head like a turkey vulture, but the albinism might have caused it to have a white head. The feathers on top of the wings were pure white, and those on the wing bottom had a slightly greyish cast. I've noticed that the feathers on underside of the wings of normal buzzards are more greyish than the dark black feathers on top of the wings. Anyway, here are 4 of the photos. I'll post another 4 in a follow-up post. Any comments?