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  1. 14th May 2015, 12:52 PM #21
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    Re: Red-winged Blackbirds

    Quote Originally Posted by LouiseTopp View Post
    Never heard of a red winged black bird, and certainly didn't know there was such a thing as a white black bird. is it an albino?
    The white blackbird looks like a leucistic rather than an albino. I had a white (leucistic) sparrow in my garden for a while. Leucistic birds are white with dark eyes. Albinos have pink eyes.

    The Red-winged Blackbird is unrelated to the European Blackbird, which is a kind of Thrush.

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