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Re: White headed Junco?
- To: Russ Palmeri <rpalmeri@mindspring.com>
- Subject: Re: White headed Junco?
- From: Chris Hill <chill@kingfish.coastal.edu>
- Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 13:05:09 -0400 (EDT)
- cc: Carolina Birds <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
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- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
I saw juncos with excess white in a campground off the Blue Ridge Parkway
back in 1993 or 1994. There must be a local pocket of birds with genes
for albinism persisting up there.
Chris Hill
Conway, SC
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Russ Palmeri wrote:
> On the birdwalk at Craggy Peak, Blue Ridge Parkway North of Asheville, I saw
> (confirmed by very experienced birder, which I am not) a dark-eyed junco
> with white on both sides of the head, nearly to the top.
> Any one else seen such a bird?
>
> Russ Palmeri
> Asheville, North Carolina
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> Fog and rain, the sky
> touching the new green treetops,
> a lone warbler sings
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