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Steve My Wife spotted and GGOW with white feathers in both wings not far from our house about 1 week ago (possibly the same bird found a few days earlier by Chris Neri; I have not been able to relocate this bird). Karen Sussman and I saw a completely white GGOW on Admiral Rd (788), 4 miles S of Zim Rd (27) on 14 November, but as far as I know, this bird has not been relocated (although this same bird or another white GGOW was present a few miles S of this location in May). Add this to the Melanistic GGOW found by Mark Alt on 27 November, and this makes at least 4 birds with aberrant pigmentation (along with hundreds of birds with normal coloration). Pentti Alaja and Heimo Mikkola have apparently published information about albinism in GGOW, but thus far I have unable to locate this information... Ben Ben Yokel Cotton, MN --part1_83.1c064832.2ee13228_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><FONT FACE=3Darial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=3D2 PTSIZE=3D10 FAMILY= =3D"SANSSERIF" FACE=3D"Arial" LANG=3D"0">Steve<BR> My Wife spotted and GGOW with white feathers in both wings not far from our=20= house about 1 week ago (possibly the same bird found a few days earlier by C= hris Neri; I have not been able to relocate this bird). Karen Sussman=20= and I saw a completely white GGOW on Admiral Rd (788), 4 miles S of Zim Rd (= 27) on 14 November, but as far as I know, this bird has not been relocated (= although this same bird or another white GGOW was present a few miles S of t= his location in May). Add this to the Melanistic GGOW found by Mark Al= t on 27 November, and this makes at least 4 birds with aberrant pigmentation= (along with hundreds of birds with normal coloration).<BR> Pentti Alaja and Heimo Mikkola have apparently published information about a= lbinism in GGOW, but thus far I have unable to locate this information...<BR= > Ben<BR> <BR> Ben Yokel<BR> Cotton, MN</FONT></HTML> --part1_83.1c064832.2ee13228_boundary--
