2020年9月21日 · Leucism in Tui has been documented before, but there is only a few records of all white birds. At least one of those was a true albino, photographed in Clevedon in 2016. But it was suspected of being an all white leucistic bird because the eye did not appear red.

2020年10月21日 · After the sighting of a white tūī last year, Te Papa's curator of vertebrates, Colin Miskelly, told 1 NEWS the birds have a condition called leucism, which is sometimes confused for albinism. In leucism, birds can have unusually coloured plumage, with either patches or areas of white feathers, or total white colouration.

2020年10月19日 · Saturday was the first time Gillespie had seen a white tūī and he understands it had also been spotted in Kelburn. Although white birds are often referred to as albinos …

2016年10月11日 · Colin Miskelly (NZ's bird guru from Te Papa) says there are 2-3 albino tui reported annually, and observations seem to come fairly regularly from the Bay of Plenty area. White Tui spotted 2009. Another BOP white tui spotting. Nice photo of a cream/tan tui

2016年12月5日 · Plain white feathers: toroa, kereru – or an albino tui? Brown: chicken or kiwi? Orange: kea or kākā underwing? Fortunately there’s more than one way to look at a feather! For stage two, we examined feather down under a microscope, where minute structures give away the taxonomic order of each bird.

2019年1月7日 · According to Te Papa's Curator of Vertebrates, Colin Miskelly, the birds have a condition called leucism, which is sometimes confused for albinism. In leucism, birds can have unusually coloured plumage, with either patches or areas of white feathers, or total white colouration. Their eyes remain dark coloured.

Found throughout much of New Zealand, including Auckland, Kermadec, and Chatham Islands, though mostly absent from Canterbury. Favors native forest and scrub, also venturing into suburban parks, farmland, and rural gardens. Often detected by its unique voice consisting of melodious notes intermixed with croaks, coughs, clicks, and wheezes.

2025年2月22日 · The bird community is in a flutter over a rare spotting of a white tui. Simon Rapley, who works in the forestry industry, was outside when he spotted and photographed the tui bird in a kowhai...

I had just photographed the most beautiful bird, a rare white tui in a friends garden in Opotiki. Not an albino but a melanistic mutation called leucism. We speculated from her size she was a female and she was feeding on the nectar of a row of flowering cherry trees among numerous other black tuis.

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