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fionacule

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• Apr 16, 2005

• #1

Can anyone help with the ID of this bird (attached)?

It looks like a female blackbird with white markings on cheeks and neck. The only other thing I can come up with is a grey cheeked thrush - hardly likely!

Fiona

ps - please excuse the photo quality - It was a case of point and snap!

 

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Andrew Whitehouse

Professor of Listening

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• Apr 16, 2005

• #2

Hi Fiona,

It's a partially leucistic Blackbird. Blackbirds seem to have white markings relatively frequently.

 

TWM

Well-known member

• Apr 16, 2005

• #3

Hi Fiona, your first guess is right --it is a Blackbird with some white feathers on its cheek. It is quite common to get blackbirds with some white feathers. The photos are great, a lot better than some that are posted! Tim.

 

TWM

Well-known member

• Apr 16, 2005

• #4

Andrew Whitehouse said:

Hi Fiona,

It's a partially leucistic Blackbird. Blackbirds seem to have white markings relatively frequently.

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You can obviously type faster than me Andrew!!!

 

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fionacule

Active member

• Apr 16, 2005

• #5

Andrew Whitehouse said:

Hi Fiona,

It's a partially leucistic Blackbird. Blackbirds seem to have white markings relatively frequently.

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How exciting! Have never seen one before, are they common?

 

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fionacule

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• Apr 16, 2005

• #6

fiona_cule said:

How exciting! Have never seen one before, are they common?

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sorry, take back that question, it was answered before I posted!

 

White*Kite

Forever delayed

• Apr 16, 2005

• #7

I have a male Blackbird on my patch that I see regularly like this - he has white cheek feathers and white outer tail feathers. Many of the Jackdaws around here have white feathering too - the population here is so dense that I suppose there were bound to be some strange ones mixed in. Always interesting to see these oddities!