subject:"\[mou\-net\] Redpolls with orange feathers"

Re: [mou-net] Redpolls with orange feathers

2015-04-09 Thread sparky stensaas

Xanthochroism is where normal red pigments replaced by yellow. This is also the cause of yellow cardinals At the Sax-Zim Bog Welcome Center last winter we had one of these xanthochroistic redpolls ...or should I say Yellowpoll Sent from my iPhone On Apr 9, 2015, at 11:40 AM, Earl Orf

[mou-net] Redpolls with orange feathers

2015-04-09 Thread Earl Orf

When I closely examined some Redpoll photos that I took this spring, I found some with orange or yellow feathers on the top of the head. I don't remember seeing this before. I did some internet searching and found some photos and references to orange feathers but no explanation for it. Does