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White sparrow sized bird unidentified (1 Viewer)

Hello,
Apologies if I am not doing this in a proper format this is my first post. I caught a picture of a bird that had a purely white head and mostly all of its body was white as well but I did not catch a good glimpse of the whole bird. Attached is a picture of the birds head, I'm not sure if it's a different species I just dont recognize, or possibly an albino of some type. Apologies in advance as the picture is not the clearest , and only shows the birds head. Any guesses or a positive identification would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks so much!
Peregrinefalcon9
 

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Welcome to BF.
You will need to tell us where this is (country, region, location) so that we know what species need to be considered, and the date may also be useful (both of these should be provided with every ID request). But... it looks ok for an aberrant house sparrow.
 
Hi peregrinefalcon and a warm welcome to you from all the Staff and Moderators. I agree it looks rather like a House Sparrow; leucistic, rather than albino. You can read more about leucism here in our Opus article: Dictionary G-L - BirdForum Opus

I'm sure you will enjoy it here and I look forward to hearing your news.
 

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