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Re: White headed Junco?



I saw juncos with excess white in a campground off the Blue Ridge Parkway
back in 1993 or 1994.  There must be a local pocket of birds with genes
for albinism persisting up there. 

Chris Hill
Conway, SC


On Sat, 26 May 2001, Russ Palmeri wrote:

> On the birdwalk at Craggy Peak, Blue Ridge Parkway North of Asheville, I saw
> (confirmed by very experienced birder, which I am not) a dark-eyed junco
> with white on both sides of the head, nearly to the top.
> Any one else seen such a bird?
> 
> Russ Palmeri
> Asheville, North Carolina
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> Fog and rain, the sky
> touching the new green treetops,
> a lone warbler sings
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