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Re: White bird ???



Ann,

I think a leucistic Indigo is about 1000 times more likely than a Snow
Bunting, in my opinion. A photo would be helpful, of course.

Steve Compton
102 Chatsworth Place
Summerville,SC 29485
scompton@sc.rr.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shahid" <shahidrad@comcast.net>
To: "carolinabirds" <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 8:05 PM
Subject: White bird ???


> A co-worker at Francis Beidler Forest, near Harleyville, SC, called me
very
> excited about a strange bird she saw at the entrance road to the visitor's
> center.  She described it as "bunting sized", mostly white with black on
the
> wings.  She got a fairly good look at it without binoculars before it flew
> away.  The entrance road is at the edge of farmfields and goes through a
> narrow band of mixed pine/hardwoods.  I asked her to look at the picture
of
> a Snow Bunting to see if it resembled it in any way.  She said, "That's
the
> bird!!  It looked exactly like that!!"  She said that an Indigo Bunting
was
> in the same vicinity as the strange bird.  I know that Snow Buntings are
not
> here this time of year and I have only seen them on the coast, but is
there
> any possibility that this unusual weather, rainy and cold, could be
> responsible.  Could the bird possibly be a leucistic Indigo Bunting?  Does
> anyone have any ideas?  I will look for it tomorrow morning (Mon.)  If I
> locate it I will give better details.
> Thanks.
>
> Ann Shahid
> Charleston, SC
> shahidrad@comcast.net
>