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Unusual colour bullfinch
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Unusual colour bullfinch (pyrrhula pyrrhula)

This bird stood out from the rest the bullfinches as it was a different colour. I haven't seen one like this before.
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Habitat
Grass/woodland
Location
Oxon
Date taken
25th March 2014
Scientific name
pyrrhula pyrrhula
Equipment used
Fuji HS50 EXR
delia todd
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Well, well... I wonder what is going on there then? Could be an immature that still needs to develop his full colours, or I wonder if there some leucism going on, where he's lacking some of the red pigment, and the grey on his back is reduced too?

It's all far too complicated for me, but there's more about this in the [COLOR="Blue"]Opus Dictionary[/COLOR].

An interesting bird, thanks Macf.
 

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