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lejun | all galleries >> "Birdseye View" >> Finches, Grosbeaks, Tanagers, Buntings & Orioles >> The Color of Cardinals >> Northern Cardinals > Leucistic Female Northern Cardinal
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05-JAN-2019 Lejun

Leucistic Female Northern Cardinal

Copyright © Lewis Scharpf


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.

Nikon D850 ,AF-S VR II NIKKOR 300mm f/2.8G IF-ED
1/2500s f/9.0 at 500.0mm iso5000 with Nikon 1.7x Teleconverter full exif

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