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Leucistic Rufous-collared Sparrow

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Posted by Jim DeWitt on March 3, 2010 at 1:48 AM
Leucistic Rufous-collared Sparrow
A few months ago, Fred Thompson posted some interesting shots of leucistic species. I thought I'd add this leucistic Rufous-collared Sparrow, usually a boldly patterned common sparrow in Central and South America. This bird, in Volcan village, in the western Panama highlands, was extremely pale, but not an albino.

The bird was a long ways away; this is a 80% crop, and is posted as documentation only.