strange colour

[#1poacher 8]

hi while out in the garden i turned round to see a blackbird sitting on my fence nothing unusual there you might ask but there was, it was black and white although mostly black but white patches around the top half and its head. has anyone else had a similar encounter with these birds

[willum 89]

yeah we used to haev a black and white mottled bodied black bird come into the garden on a regular basis evil thing used to dive bomb ya at about 5ish in the morning and lst thing at night so i guess that was his terotry ? if you see him again get a pick up mate

[christian71 3,187]

YEP ME SEEN 1

[#1poacher 8]

he did seem to be a game little bird as he was only 5ft away and was quite happy just sitting there he'll be back

[rob.i 26]

could it have been a Ring Ouzel?

[#1poacher 8]

yeah we used to haev a black and white mottled bodied black bird come into the garden on a regular basis evil thing used to dive bomb ya at about 5ish in the morning and lst thing at night so i guess that was his terotry ? if you see him again get a pick up mate

yeah will try to get pick of him

[Ratreeper 441]

there used to be a male blackbird with odd white feathers dotted about when i was at college. Its when they are born partially leucistic (sp?) I think. Which means they are born white, but have normal eyes etc not like albinos that have no pigment at all. Full leucistic is very rare, much rarer than albino

[adam scott 1]

hehe. we call them magpie's over our way!

[oakey 57]

could it have been a Ring Ouzel?

weave had one of those by us i had to look it up in a book

[rob.i 26]

I believe they are quite rare only seen two in my lifetime

["Earth!" 503]

must be an area thing as pied blackbirds,corvids and near white wood pigeons have been seen around here.

[Malt 379]

They're called variegated blackbirds. Sometimes they only have the odd couple of white feathers here and there, and sometimes they're all white. I think it's quite rare to see one with a lot of white on it. There's one lives about the place here, he's got a white crescent on the side of his head. I've seen him about for the last 3 years.

[romany52 313]

In captivity you get white, pied, cinnamon, and I think blue.

[stick 2]

i think i saw somewhere ages ago that the hooded crow is it? was interbreeding with normal crows, and this was thinning the hooded crow gene pool making them more endangered. could be one of these hybrid offspring?

[salclalin 240]

There was a Cinnamon Blackbird on A Farm close to where i Live a Couple of Years ago.