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An avian oddity

An avian oddity was recently spotted at the BFS — a pied leucistic California Towhee. Leucism is caused by a defect in melanin deposition. Some leucistic birds have uniformly reduced pigmentation all over their bodies and other — those with pied leucism — deposit melanin normally in some feathers, but not in others, causing white […]

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