Date: 2/20/26 1:26 pm From: Alicia Plotkin (via CAYUGABIRDS-L list) <CAYUGABIRDS-L...> Subject: [cayugabirds-l] redhead with odd color
For the first time in a decade we have several thousand redheads in front of our house! While combing through them seeking a canvasback (no dice) found a redhead with unusual coloring. It's head was a uniform buffy yellow, sort of goldenish wheat color, exactly where it should have been red. It's chest was a cool medium brown instead of black. It's bill was pale blue with a black tip, just as it should have been, and its back, folded wings, and sides may have been a shade lighter but were basically as normal, it's butt was black as expected. It was precisely the size of the other redheads and behaved just as they did. It never preened or flew so don't know about the rest of it.
I thought I'd find something on the internet but so far have not succeeded. Any idea what kind of color mutation (or very odd hybridization) would cause this?
