Is there a requirement for albino birds to have pink eyes?
Animals that are white are considered albino only if they have pink eyes, I
believe. The Seneca army depot white deer are not albinos because they have
brown eyes and they are considered to have just the recessive genes for color
in Whitetail deer.
Bill's bird has dark colored eyes. Or it looks like that in photos.
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Donna Scott
On May 2, 2015, at 8:54 AM, Kevin J. McGowan k...@cornell.edu wrote:
Actually, I believe the term albino is more accurate for this bird. Albinism
refers to the lack of melanin pigments. True albinos can still contain
carotenoid-based pigments, such as the rosy wash on your bird.
Kevin
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In my initial post the term leucistic would have been a more accurate
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Bill
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