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This is a leucistic female Northern Cardinal at feeder.
Due to an inability of the bird to deposit the chestnut/buff pigment, phaeomelanin, many of the feathers are white in color.
The red carotenoid pigment is unaffected so the feathers are red in the normal places for a female cardinal.
Photo taken 1/5/19 in Opelika, Alabama.
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