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Red-winged Blackbird
near Stewardson, Illinois
1 June 1989

I'm posting this record just for the general interest of a Red-winged Blackbird with one white wing. Whether a partial albino, or a partial leucistic bird, I'm not sure. A local farmer told my wife and me that this bird had been on his farm for three summers. The bird left in the fall with the other Red-wingeds and came back in the spring. I watched it for about 30 minutes. It vocalized like any other Red-winged BB and interacted with other Red-wingeds normally. It was pretty flashy to see in flight, however. Three shots posted. These images scanned from old color slides.

Heard some squeaking and chattering in the small gully behind our home, and were very excited to see a family of 4-5 Malayan weasels. One even came up to my kids' bedroom window, and they all got to see it from less than a meter away!

In July, 1998, and again in July, 2001, I spent some time on the island of Saba in the Netherlands Antilles with friends who were both researchers helping to gather data on nesting Red-billed Tropicbirds on the cliff sides in various locations there. On a couple of occasions I helped out gathering data on adults and nestlings by weighing and measuring the birds, etc.

Red-billed Tropicbird
Phaethon aethereus
one day old chick in nest
Saba, Netherlands Antilles,
6 July 1998
The bird was removed from the nest briefly for weighing, etc.

We had watched the adult incubating this single egg for several days and it hatched on the morning of 6 July 1998. I posted a shot of the adult incubating a few years ago at:
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/165396
In image 1 you can see bits of the eggshell near the bird.
This chick later fledged successfully I was told.

these images scanned from slides.