This leucistic American Robin greeted Erika and me at the Nisqually national wildlife refuge on 16 June 2020. Being leucistic is different from being albino. Albinos have pink eyes and are completely white. Leucistic birds, for one reason or another, are patchy white or abnormally pale. This bird was not symmetrically leucistic—the right side of its head was more or less normally colored.
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