Hi im Ann live in S Wales & interested in all wildlife including birds. Especially the birds that visit my garden on a daily basis. (1 Viewer)

[Ann yates]

Hi im Ann. I live in S Wales, am interested in all wildlife and especially the garden birds that visit my garden on a daily basis which includes this beautiful goldfinch

 

[ClarkWGriswold]

Hi Ann. Welcome to BirdForum from another South Wales resident. Been having a few Goldfinch visiting the garden recently. Always a pleasure to see.

Rich

 

[Ann yates]

Thanks for the kind reply. One of the gold finchs I have is leutricist. Its the second one is the last 3 years? How common are this variation of this bird

 

[Kits]

Welcome to Birdforum. I hope you enjoy your visits. Leucistic birds are relatively common.

 

[Chris G6 UXU]

Hello and welcome to the forum, enjoy and all the best.

 

[ClarkWGriswold]

Thanks for the kind reply. One of the gold finchs I have is leutricist. Its the second one is the last 3 years? How common are this variation of this bird

Not had one in my back garden Ann.

Rich

 

[Lisa W]

Hi, welcome to the forum. I think you will find us a friendly and helpful group. According to studies published in avionreport.com only 1 bird in 30,000 has leucistic or albinistic plumage, so about .0033% seems that would be pretty rare to me. And what a lovely shot of the little one.

You searched for Leucistic - Avian Report

avianreport.com

 

[delia todd]

Hi Ann and a warm welcome from me too. I often see black birds with varying amounts of leucism but have not noticed any in Goldfinches.

You can read more about leucism in our Opus Dictionary: Dictionary G-L - BirdForum Opus

I'm sure you will enjoy it here and I hope to hear about all the birds you see when out and about.

 

[Fritz73]

Hola! Welcome to Birdforum

 

[Neville Davies]

Hi im Ann. I live in S Wales, am interested in all wildlife and especially the garden birds that visit my garden on a daily basis which includes this beautiful goldfinch

Welcome Ann from a fellow S Wales birder. I have been posting mostly on the Mallorca part of the bird forum as I have a lot of connections there bird wise. Back here, only had 1 chaffinch and 1 goldfinch in the garden, but plenty of everything else, including a flock of 11 long tailed tits which are very entertaining.