Syracuse.com - Looks like a robin... but is it?

[HuntingNY-News]

It's as large as a robin with brown-striped head. Any Idea what it is? Albino?" asked the reader.

Dr. Irv Goldman, Dewitt, send in these two photos today with the following question:

"It's as large as a robin with brown-striped head. Any Idea what it is? Albino?"

I forwarded these photos to Laura Erickson, ""The Bird Lady," and former science editor of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. She still writes for them. I asked her if it was an albino robin.

Laura responded:

" I think so--ask if it was hopping like a robin. The beak looks a bit smaller, more bluebird-like, but that can be the angle.

"...But it does have a bit of pigment, so it's more proper to call it a "leucistic robin"--that is, one with very little normal pigment."

What's everyone else think. Is this a leucistic robin?

View the full article on The Syracuse Outdoors Blog

[cynthiafu]

looks like a sparrow

[tughillhunter]

yup. I agree. Its a white sparrow.