leucistic

Not the best Blip - but this little lady has been regular visitor to our woodland recently - quite noticeable as she scurries around under the feeders.
I knew it was a form of albinism but didn't know it had its own name in birds - or that its most common in blackbirds.

Long standing followers will already know I'm a bit of a geek about this kind of thing - so I'm very pleased at having used up another part of my memory allowance with yet another utterly useless bit of information.

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