[Birdtalk] Looking for an ID for a feeder bird

[Mark Stackhouse]

Looks like you have a fairly common variation of a partially 
"leucistic" (white) House Finch. I fairly frequently see partly-white 
House Finches at my feeders, with the majority of the whiteness being 
on the head and wings. I've seen several over the years with white 
heads. For several years some time ago I had a particularly stunning 
adult male with an all-white head. The white and red color were very 
beautiful together - though maybe a bit too obvious to a passing 
Sharp-shinned Hawk. I was surprised how long he survived.

Mark Stackhouse
mark at westwings.com
801-487-9453 (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
011-52-323-285-1243 (San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico)

On Dec 18, 2007, at 11:20 AM, "" <enoel2 at excite.com> wrote:

>
> I'm a novice birder and a friend sent me some rather poor quality 
> photos of a bird he had a his feeder in the Ogden Valley.  I've posted 
> the photos to my blog in hopes I might get an ID on the bird.  Here's 
> the link:
>
>
> http://lilymidnite.blogspot.com/2007/12/birds-photos.html
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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