Here is a one in six million bird

Bretrick

Bretrick

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Perth Western Australia
Whilst out and about I spotted a strange looking bird.
It was with a group of Magpies. (a mischief)
I slowly walked over to it, hoping it would not fly away. Getting closer I could see it was a magpie but with more white than black.
What an astonishing bird before me.
Looking up "White Magpie" I learn it is called a Leucistic Magpie, or more correctly, a magpie with reduced pigmentation making the plumage more transparent.
Loo-kiss-tic.







 

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Great photos, you got!!

Wow.

It looks as if it dunked itself in a bucket of white paint, then sunned itself till dry, then carried on. šŸ˜šŸ˜†

Any idea which gender it might be?
 
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Animals can get pretty weird.

We used to have red-brown squirrels. Over time this seemed to "morph" into a lighter shade of brown.

Then we had black squirrels as well. Before too long I saw oddities like black squirrels with blonde tails.

Yesterday I saw a grey squirrel, something we've never had here. But this one seems to exactly match the tree bark color, so much so that when holding still on a tree it almost disappears.
 

Kaila said:
Great photos, you got!!

Wow.

It looks as if it dunked itself in a bucket of white paint, then sunned itself till dry, then carried on. šŸ˜šŸ˜†

Any idea which gender it might be?
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No way to determine the sex of this Magpie.
Difficult at the best of times. Both have reddish-brown eyes and similar black and white patches, except a subtle difference on the white patch on the back of their neck.
On the male the neck patch is all over white, while the female's looks grey-white towards the bottom of the patch
 
Bretrick said:
No way to determine the sex of this Magpie.
Difficult at the best of times. Both have reddish-brown eyes and similar black and white patches, except a subtle difference on the white patch on the back of their neck.
On the male the neck patch is all over white, while the female's looks grey-white towards the bottom of the patch
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Have you considered sharing some of your pictures on a local news, high school classes or a senior center?
 
@Bretrick the W.A Flora and Fauna would be interested in the photos you took of the magpie
very rare siting Iā€™d say ..we have magpies by the dozen but Iā€™ve never seen a white one
Willy wagtails attack magpies here ā€¦I refer to WW as ā€œbossy bootsā€œ because they are a fraction of the size of Magpies but still try to ā€œruleā€ over larger birds
 
Kadee said:
@Bretrick the W.A Flora and Fauna would be interested in the photos you took of the magpie
very rare siting Iā€™d say ..we have magpies by the dozen but Iā€™ve never seen a white one
Willy wagtails attack magpies here ā€¦I refer to WW as ā€œbossy bootsā€œ because they are a fraction of the size of Magpies but still try to ā€œruleā€ over larger birds
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Thank you Kadee, I will look into contacting W.A flora and Fauna.
 

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