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    Default Piebald Robin

    I noticed this robin while driving my wife to work this morning, so after dropping her off, I went home, grabbed the camera and went robin hunting.
    I wish I could have gotton a picture from the back of the bird. It sure looked cool.

    <font color="black"> Piebald Robin </font>

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    Default Re: Pibald Robin

    Never seen that before buddy, cool pic thanks for sharing.

    Either piebald or some kid took the ol' paintball gun to it lol.

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    Default Re: Pibald Robin

    That is pretty cool Steve!!! Thanks for posting!

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    Default Re: Pibald Robin

    Very cool. Got to love odd colored animals. We used to have an albino starling that visited our feeders all the time. Eventually he stopped coming back so I figure he was caught by one of our pigeon hawks or redtailed hawks probably, or even a cat or shot by one the local kids and their air guns. We also have a chocolate phase canada goose that I can sit out in the yard and it will walk right up to me.


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    Default Re: Pibald Robin

    Cool. I have read in the past that some birds will get a fungus, and when the feathers return they are white. Birds also have albinism traits too.

    Only reason I know this is because I looked it up one day a few years ago when I saw a robin in my yard that had an all white head.

    Albinism is more prevalent in robins than any other bird according to one sight I read.

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    Default Re: Pibald Robin

    Thats pretty cool Steve.

    Birds can be tough to get pics of, especially close up. I tried Saturday morning to get some pics of some red tailed hawks while I was walking through the woods as I was being careful not to step on any snakes.

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    Default Re: Pibald Robin

    [ QUOTE ]
    Thats pretty cool Steve.

    Birds can be tough to get pics of, especially close up. I tried Saturday morning to get some pics of some red tailed hawks while I was walking through the woods as I was being careful not to step on any snakes.

    [/ QUOTE ]
    Yeah, I was trying to get closer for better pictures, but it just wouldn't let me do it. I was moving in for a good shot of his back and he decided to vacate the neighbourhood.
    I'm glad I clicked these ones off, before he took off. I was zoomed in as much as I could just to get these out-of-focus, but better-than-nuthin pics

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    Default Re: Pibald Robin

    Yeah can't say I have ever seen any odd colored animals except the most common ones like squirrels. Have an albino one living in a near by park.

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    Default Re: Pibald Robin

    [ QUOTE ]
    [ QUOTE ]
    Thats pretty cool Steve.

    Birds can be tough to get pics of, especially close up. I tried Saturday morning to get some pics of some red tailed hawks while I was walking through the woods as I was being careful not to step on any snakes.

    [/ QUOTE ]
    Yeah, I was trying to get closer for better pictures, but it just wouldn't let me do it. I was moving in for a good shot of his back and he decided to vacate the neighbourhood.
    I'm glad I clicked these ones off, before he took off. I was zoomed in as much as I could just to get these out-of-focus, but better-than-nuthin pics

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    I agree very difficult to get closeup pictures of birds. Normally I bait them with bread. lol Of course it's better to hide the bread in a nearby tree stump and wait them out rather than what I did here, as then you have a big plate of bread in your picture with the bird. lol


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    Default Re: Pibald Robin

    That is different I wonder if it is sick or if it is like that because of poor genes.???

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    Default Re: Pibald Robin

    I have seen robins like that

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    Default Re: Pibald Robin

    Cool pic! That goose looks more like a half-breed.

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    Default Re: Pibald Robin

    Cool pics! I think I can recall seeing a few robins like that around here too...

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    Default Re: Piebald Robin

    thats awsome, we have tons of robins here in Wisconsin but i have never seen a piebald one before.

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    Default Re: Pibald Robin

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    Cool pic! That goose looks more like a half-breed.

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    Nope not a half-breed. I watched it's parents, two normal Canadian Geese, build a nest at the end of my yard and raise him from a little one. He flys with the group of Canadians all the time and even had one clutch of young himself last year with a normal Canadian and they all looked like normal geese when they got bigger. It's just a genetic color variation.

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