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White Headed Cardinal (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Steven_B
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Interesting photo.
Here's a white-headed House Finch to go along with it--
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fugl/11263493795/
Here's a white-headed House Finch to go along with it--
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fugl/11263493795/
LifeIsGood2
Show-Me Missouri
Is it maybe a young one? I see that it is missing the black that is normally on the head. Cute little bird photo!
LifeIsGood2
Show-Me Missouri
They have a black mask. Something is different about that little cardinal. Young one, I guess. The head maybe is a lighter color, right?
It's not a young bird, but a leucistic adult female with some of the normally black and brownish feathering of the head and face having been replaced by white.
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stonechat1
New member
Nor do males o
flicker.
Some excellent photo,s fugle on your flicker page nice expression
of the northern shoveler has he sits on the rock and hooded merganser
I see you call the goosander the common merganser there, i think
you never lose your love for birds and the environment there in
thanks for shareing.
Some excellent photo,s fugle on your flicker page nice expression
of the northern shoveler has he sits on the rock and hooded merganser
I see you call the goosander the common merganser there, i think
you never lose your love for birds and the environment there in
thanks for shareing.
LifeIsGood2
Show-Me Missouri
Leucistic
Please tell me more. Leucistic - does it happen often to birds or just certain birds. Just wondering since I am so new at identifying birds. I am using the forum to learn all I can before I start "chasing" birds around this spring learning to identify what is around me. I have good wooded areas, pastures, and rivers. I expect to be able to identify a good variety of Missouri birds here at home if I can learn how.
Please tell me more. Leucistic - does it happen often to birds or just certain birds. Just wondering since I am so new at identifying birds. I am using the forum to learn all I can before I start "chasing" birds around this spring learning to identify what is around me. I have good wooded areas, pastures, and rivers. I expect to be able to identify a good variety of Missouri birds here at home if I can learn how.
LifeIsGood2
Show-Me Missouri
Eagle
An Eagle flew right past our front yard the other day, but no way to photograph it. We see them fairly often at the Meramec River, but I may go to Washington, MO and see if I can get a photo at the Missouri River. I here there are more there and it isn't that far for me. I can't imagine getting close enough for a photo with my lack of photography skill. I am really at square one!
:eek!:
An Eagle flew right past our front yard the other day, but no way to photograph it. We see them fairly often at the Meramec River, but I may go to Washington, MO and see if I can get a photo at the Missouri River. I here there are more there and it isn't that far for me. I can't imagine getting close enough for a photo with my lack of photography skill. I am really at square one!
:eek!:
This is a bit like albinos, and not very common. You can read more about it on this page (click here).
It's not real common, but it can crop up in just about any species of bird (or other animal for that matter). In wild birds (off the top of my head), I've seen it in Canada Geese, Ruddy Ducks, coots, crows, blackbirds, robins, juncos, Spotted Towhees, House Finches, House Sparrows. If you Google "leucistic birds", you'll turn up lots of photos and discussion.
Peter C.
...just zis guy, you know?
Like fugl says, can show up in any sort of animal. For some reason, in my area, it is more common in House Sparrows - the ones at feeders often have just a few feathers in the wings, or on the head, statlingly white. On occasion, these birds get my heart rate up, because I think something really exciting has shown up! Then, a second later, I figure it out...
By the way, one way you can tell your (very interesting-looking!) is not an immature is the bill colour - only adults (of either sex) have bright red bills like that. The young ones (within their first year, anyway) have much duller bills.
By the way, one way you can tell your (very interesting-looking!) is not an immature is the bill colour - only adults (of either sex) have bright red bills like that. The young ones (within their first year, anyway) have much duller bills.
