Unusual Crow

[Good shot?]

 

Edited February 3, 2022 by Good shot?

[Weihrauch17]

I have seen one Brown and several White Crows and a black Crow behind my house with alot of white in it's wings, very distinctive.

[steve_b_wales]

I've shot many like this. It's leucistic.

Edited February 2, 2022 by steve_b_wales

[Rim Fire]

usually after there molt they go back to black

 

[Ultrastu]

Rook ? 

[snow white]

Shot quite a few like that

[Good shot?]

Should have said “unusual for me” then.

😀😀

[Walker570]

Shot a lot over the years but never with a white feather.  Would it be a local thing?

[Gas seal]

Hi Good Shot I’ve shot a few. There are a few about, I don’t shoot them now or the (white woodpigeon). l shot this Canada about five years ago near St Helens . I have some unusual photos. I will look for them and show them.

[Good shot?]

Thanks Gas seal, that beak is special, I have only seen an all white Crow once many years ago while fishing the Ribble.

 

Other than the Starling (attached) this Crow is the only other Leucistic one I have come across.

Edited February 3, 2022 by Good shot?

[gmm243]

I shot this grey crow locally about 4 years ago

[gmm243]

And another one from 2 years ago

[Smokersmith]

There's been one like this around my work for the last few years.

[TIGHTCHOKE]

15 minutes ago, Smokersmith said:

There's been one like this around my work for the last few years.

Oh does he visit you too?

[grahamch]

On 02/02/2022 at 16:00, Good shot? said:

 

Is it not a Rook with a beak like that?

 

[Good shot?]

2 hours ago, grahamch said:

Is it not a Rook with a beak like that?

 

Definitely a Crow, camera angle etc giving a false image. Took a couple of other pics but deleted them unfortunately but I can see why you would say that.

[Hicky]

We have a white/off grey one we had stuffed now in the local(centrally located in the shoot). 

[Gas seal]

Hi the way you photographed it it looks like something from a horror picture. After watching the Alfred Hitchcock film the birds on the cinema ,on the bus home we were talking about the best crow decoys , teddy bears with glass eyes, white ferrets, and dead rabbits. A man joined in saying try a feather pillow, the bus conductor was the best he said just use a cardboard cutout of Tippi Hedren . When I was still at school the older men wouldn’t shoot crows.

[Jim Neal]

I'd have said it's a rook as well from the size of the bird and the silver/grey beak but it doesn't really matter.  I've seen a handful of semi-leucistic ones like this, either a symmetrical lack of colouring such as yours or random, uneven patches of white.

[WalkedUp]

I can see why some would think it’s a rook initially because of the unusual ventral presentation, and reflections lightening the bill. However the feather-covered nares and ‘wattle’ are just about visible to confirm it is a crow.

Edited February 7, 2022 by WalkedUp

[Smokersmith]

Another this morning 

 

[Jim Neal]

There was a jackdaw with lots of brown feathers on its wings this morning sat on a roundabout near town.  Could have picked it off with a spud gun it was that close!

[FOXHUNTER1]