[EBB Sightings] leucstic Towhees

An all white California Towhee lived for over a year at Sutro Heights Park
in San Francisco.

A photo by Peter Seubert is at:

http://fog.ccsf.edu/~jmorlan/albinotowhee.jpg

It was photographed December 4, 2004 on one of my class field trips.  

For more information on color variations in birds see:


http://www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw/AboutBirdsandFeeding/OtherStrangeBirds.htm#ColorVariants

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:09:49 +0000, "judi sierra" 
wrote:

>I've had a Towhee visiting since last winter with patches of white on both 
>sides of it's neck, like a partial necklace. At first I thought it was 
>molting but since it continues to llok the same I decided it was partially 
>leucisitic.
>Judi Sierra- Oakland


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