What’s Up? – Look what I found…

Two weeks ago I had the great opportunity to photograph a variety of bird species in my backyard, which most of them are or have been in my backyard previously. As I mentioned on last Monday’s post, I shot many photos… since we had excellent weather conditions favorable for photography.

After going through the photo process ( I shoot RAW mode) I happened to notice a photo of a bird I wasn’t familiar with. I knew it was a sparrow of some kind, I checked and researched and did not find it registered anywhere. However, the body from the neck down was identical to the Chipping Sparrow, and was hanging around with a group of them. I concluded that it was a Leucistic Chipping Sparrow.

Leucism (/ˈluːsɪzəm, -kɪz-/) is a condition in which there is partial loss of pigmentation in an animal resulting in white, pale, or patchy coloration of the skin, hair, feathers, scales or cuticle, but not the eyes. It is occasionally spelled leukism. Unlike albinism, it is caused by a reduction in multiple types of pigment, not just melanin.

Photo Gallery

Eating Lunch With…

Red-winged Blackbird

16 thoughts on “What’s Up? – Look what I found…”

bayphotosbydonna on March 18, 2019 at 6:44 am said:

Interesting and adorable capture of the Leucistic Chipping Sparrow, Hien, nice find! And your gallery of feathered friends are beautiful! 🙂

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- H.J. for avian101 on March 18, 2019 at 5:22 pm said:
  
  Thank you Donna. 🙂
  
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silviadeangelis40d on March 18, 2019 at 7:39 am said:

Immagini bellissime, molto apprezzate
Buona settimana,silvia

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- H.J. for avian101 on March 18, 2019 at 5:25 pm said:
  
  Grazie mille Silvia. Saluto. 🙂
  
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Prior... on March 18, 2019 at 1:23 pm said:

Awesome find (you lucky duck – I mean lucky cardinal – I mean lucky HJ)

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- H.J. for avian101 on March 18, 2019 at 5:43 pm said:
  
  Thank you Ivette. 🙂
  
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susanpoozan on March 18, 2019 at 3:35 pm said:

I like your ‘eating lunch’ photographs.

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- H.J. for avian101 on March 18, 2019 at 5:46 pm said:
  
  Thank you my friend Susan. 🙂
  
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Clare Pooley on March 19, 2019 at 6:24 pm said:

Such an interesting-looking Chipping Sparrow. I love the shot of the Red-winged Blackbird!

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- H.J. for avian101 on March 19, 2019 at 7:20 pm said:
  
  Thank you very much, Clare. 🙂
  
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  - Clare Pooley on March 20, 2019 at 6:11 pm said:
    
    My pleasure, HJ.
tanjabrittonwriter on March 19, 2019 at 10:04 pm said:

…even though the warbler might be Pumped up on yellow, I think you meant to say yellow-Rumped, H.J. 😊

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- H.J. for avian101 on March 20, 2019 at 5:59 pm said:
  
  Oops! You got me there! Thank you very much, Tanja. 🙂
  
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  - tanjabrittonwriter on March 20, 2019 at 7:45 pm said:
    
    Typos happen all the time to me, too, and I like to be told, so I can correct them. I hope you don’t mind!
  - H.J. for avian101 on March 20, 2019 at 9:24 pm said:
    
    Not at all!
13glidermom on June 23, 2019 at 8:52 pm said:

Reblogged this on FlamingPurpleJellyfish and commented:
Absolutely striking! Reminds me of our pied Zebra finches- how cool 😍

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