A photo of a 'white' NZ Fantail at Bream Bay Lodge has been posted to Facebook by Shaun Lee.
Link to photo: https://scontent.fpmr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/ ... e=5C023D13
White Birds - photos and discussion
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'White' NZ Fantail, Bream Bay Lodge
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Re: White Birds - photos and discussion
I’ve seen a partially leucistic Blackbird in Kohimarama around the main road, mostly on its back.
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Re: White Birds - photos and discussion
It was white on its back mostly?
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Re: White Birds - photos and discussion
White SI tomtit recorded near Harihari last week: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/16429603
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Re: White Birds - photos and discussion
This is another sparrow near where I saw the one I posted a few weeks ago. This one was at the "village" at the bottom of 17th Ave Tauranga. I meant to go back and try for better photos but it's not happening so I'm posting what I did get.
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And another partially leucistic bird I've seen recently is this coot at Sullivan Lake Whakatane
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I was sent this photo of a white house sparrow at Loburn, North Canterbury.
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I have been doing retrospective photo indexing this year and have just come across this VOC that I somehow missed at the time and thought should perhaps go on the record here. It was in the Maketu, Bay of Plenty, area between Newdicks Beach and the Waihi Estuary entrance. 23 September 2017.
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Re: White Birds - photos and discussion
Saw a chaffinch with white tail and rump in the vineyards on Thursday, alas no photo and probably unlikely to see her again