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This is pretty cool!
This robin lives about a mile from me.
It made the front page of the paper the other day!

That's really neat.

COOL

G-Mom

THAT IS INCREDIBLE I WONDER IF IT WAS "AN ONLY CHILD" (YOU KNOW THE PARENTS ONLY LAID ONE EGG)

Don't know about the "only child" thing, but looks like it's gonna have some babies! It stays in a nest in a pine tree all the time, only comes out to get some worms, then goes right back.

I'm anxious to see what the babies look like!

It almost looks as if a Momma Seagull and a
Daddy Robin got together

Weezie

Weeeeeezie!
It's Saturday night and you owe me a beer!

Woooooooooo~Hoooooooooo
Saturday night and it's a party
Wish I really had the $$ money $$ to send you one...I'd do it...

Weezie

Ahh, that doesn't work, anyway!
I tried it!

When I was in boarding school, there was no way we could sneak beer in. So, I had the bright idea , it was a damp box of broken glass that smelled suspiciously like beer!

I learned so much in boarding school!

I learned at the "School of Hard~Knox"
Went there twice!!! <img border="0" alt="[perplexed]" title="" src="graemlins/confused.gif" />
Butt i r a grad~g~ate and ah no lotts...

Hey Cindy friend, hubby said to tell you that Albino robins are good to eat...they are all white meat!

Awww...he's beautiful!

I think my cockatoo would be doing the 'look-at-me-I'm-a-really-sexy-parrot' dance for that one!

Gisela

About 15 years ago I had a partially albino robin that stayed in my yard one Winter. Every other feather was snow-white on this bird the rest were completely normal. It gave him a speckled look. This condition is not as rare as you might think. Albinism or more commonly partial-albinism shows up fairly often in birds, especially Blackbirds and Robins.

I've had a "white thing"like that flying in my yard.I been trying to get a picture,but it's a real scardy cat.I didn't think of it being a robin,as don't have many of those in my yard.(I'm kinda ruled by the red cardinals& red bellied woodpecker....who has a family....and
I spied them teaching flight lessons yesterday)I have a mix of smaller birds also like nut hatchs/sparrows/chic a dees/finches/cow birds/thrush/mockingbird/titmouses.Mrs d seems to hog all the blue birds at her house.I don't get very many here.

the albinoism in birds is a lack of tyrosinase.I also know its not inherited.its a thing with the resseive gene and for it to pass on to offspring...the albino must be homozygous,that is the carrier of 2 mutant genes(alleles)If one has a normal allel( assumeing they are fully pigmented)The parents of the albino must each of had 1 muted allel& 1 normal allel(assumeing they are normally pigmented)perhaps they are relatives and inherited the mutant allel from a common ansector.
Cindy your bird May be fully pigmented.it has dark eyes& the coloring looks proper on the beak but the legs are normally black.sooooo are any bird groups in your area going to tag the bird???hell you could always write your paper and ask if any groups are going to tag it and see if post your response..lolthen again.....maybe a dove& robin had some freaky sex..lol(sorry....low alchoal level this morning....dry conties suck)

That is really something. I've never seen a white robin, but We did have an albino squirrel in our tree whan I was seven. I'm glad it hasn't stuck out too much for a predator to snatch!!