Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 04:34:39 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Stan Arnold Subject: Re: Grackles with white feathers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My experience is similar to Fred's: I've seen several grackles with vary= ing amounts of white. Last week I saw a grackle with white outer tail feathe= rs on the Va. eastern shore. Though I've not seen an albino, two years ago, here in Anne Arundel Co., I saw a "piebald" grackle, with a mottled tan = and white coloration--no dark feathers at all. Stan Arnold Glen Burnie -----Original Message----- From: Frederick W. Fallon To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM Date: Friday, February 04, 2000 12:36 AM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] What is this bird? >Grackles have a fairly high incidence of partial albinism, esp (in my >experience) with white feathers in the wing or tail. Could this be the >explanation? In that case, perhaps the white was on only one side. > >Fred Fallon >fwfallon@mnsinc.com >Bowie > >Jerry Rolape wrote: > >> A grackle sized black bird with a broad white stripe running from his >> breast to the base of his tail was under our feeder this morning. Th= e >> white stripe was brilliant against the black. We could not tell if th= e >> white were directly under the wing or if it were comprised of the lead >> feathers of the wing. This was the first time we have seen this bird. >> Even though he was surrounded by red wings, grackles and cow birds, he >> stood out because of his size and the brilliant stripe. My husband >> tried to take a picture, but the flock took off when they saw movement >> at the window. This bird has not returned so far. I can't recognize >> this from the photo examples in either the Audubon or Peterson field >> guides. O.K. I give up. Does anybody know what it was? >> >> -- >> Have a nice day. Jerry & MI Rolape >> Bushwood, MD gjrolape@radix.net >> http://www.radix.net/~gjrolape >> >> ------------ Original Message ------------ >> >> ========================= ================================================ >> To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.co= m >> with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey >> ========================= ================================================ > >========================= ================================================ >To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com >with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey >========================= ================================================ > ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================