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greater spotted woodpecker - 2008/08/21 17:35 our garden is visited daily by 4 greater spotted woodpeckers, 3 are easy to identify, male, female, and juvenile. However the 4th is white and beige in colour with a red crown to the front of it's head, any ideas at to identity? and why it is white and beige?
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Re:greater spotted woodpecker - 2008/08/23 16:40 Hi Henry

It sounds like a Leucistic male bird, it's a genetic fault in the colour pigments that leaves them much paler than the normal plumage, usualy leaving them various shades of mid - light brown

Cheers, John Take only photographs, leave only footprints....
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