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Funny robin color #6811291
03/21/20 12:36 PM
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This robins been hanging around my yard for about a week.

I think its pretty cool,the old lady "yep its a bird".

Final sat in my truck after trying to get pics through the kitchen window.

Got a few pics. And remember I'm not Johnathon, some are a little fuzzy.

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Also inflight from the rear all of its trailing feathers on its wings are white. Wing tip to wing tip!


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Re: Funny robin color [Re: imissed] #6811293
03/21/20 12:37 PM
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Wow, that is cool!


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Re: Funny robin color [Re: imissed] #6811295
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Cool, and they still taste like worms, same as normal colored robins.


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Re: Funny robin color [Re: traprjohn] #6811306
03/21/20 12:42 PM
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Originally Posted by traprjohn
Cool, and they still taste like worms, same as normal colored robins.

laugh


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Re: Funny robin color [Re: imissed] #6811311
03/21/20 12:44 PM
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Cool bird


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Re: Funny robin color [Re: imissed] #6811313
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Many times when they are young in the nest they get a parasitic fly larvae feeding on their newly emerging feathers and this damage causes the feathers to grow in white.

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Originally Posted by Northof50
Many times when they are young in the nest they get a parasitic fly larvae feeding on their newly emerging feathers and this damage causes the feathers to grow in white.


Never heard of that, interesting!


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Re: Funny robin color [Re: imissed] #6811422
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I have another oddball bird here.

Its a common grackle. Half of its top bill is white. Might be hard to get a pic. I get 15-20 in my yard at a time.


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Re: Funny robin color [Re: imissed] #6811432
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Beauty of a robin . Must look so nice in flight .

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Originally Posted by Sharon
Beauty of a robin . Must look so nice in flight .


It does. I really doubt I can get a pic of it.


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Re: Funny robin color [Re: imissed] #6811443
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That would be difficult .

If you can take a video of it in flight with your phone cam , or just a cam, uploading it onto your computer screen top, then you can control the video feed line and stop it wherever you want and then take a screenshot of the image.

Maybe putting out some grapes chopped up, or other small berries may lure it close enough for you to video close up. A bird bath would work great. Robins love those too.

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That's a really neat looking robin. There is a color modifier in birds called indigo that causes the tail and wing shield to lighten in a pattern like that, when the bird is also dominant or recessive opal. Opal is often called pearl as well. Indigo brightens and lightens other colors. I am about 99% certain that is why the robin looks like that.

The same genes are in reptiles.

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Re: Funny robin color [Re: KeithC] #6811723
03/21/20 06:47 PM
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Cool looking bird! Your pics are great, compared to the ones I got of a white robin, last year.

These are actually screen grabs from a cell phone video I took along a forest road, near my house........

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Those are some cool pics.


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