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white crows? Ever seen one?

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very strage what I found today..what would cause the white in a BLACK crow....I live in Laguna Hills, Calif ...MUTANT?

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  • Chetco
    Lv 7
    10 years ago
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    This is a good article about the occurrence of white in the American Crow:

    http://www.birds.cornell.edu/crows/whitecrows.htm

    He says that he sees it in fledglings, ( about 1%) but that they usually out grow it.

  • 5 years ago

    White Crows

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    there are always genetic variations in species.. also albinos occur occasionally. many years ago before many millions of them perished due to west nile virus, I saw a crow with some white feathers in wings, but it was basically black. there was one squirrel in a local park that was totally white, and a plushy white to boot. within the grouping near that squirrel there was one other that was close to white in coat and others who had some white hairs.... I never saw this again and unfortunately the whole grouping of squirrels were killed by feral cats inhabiting the parks. today the cats are long gone their survivors killed and eaten by either hawk, fox or coyote.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    It still has pigment, so it cancels out the albino reason.

    Could be not actually a pure crow, or a cross bread, or just old?

    Not sure, not really that knowledgeable about colors of crows, sorry.

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  • 10 years ago

    Crows can get white by their father/mother mating with a white bird. Looks like a crow which isn't fully grown yet. That could be the fluff feathers that hasn't been fully grown yet. And people keep crows. That can be a crow mutation. Scientist can make any animal albino (white)

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    10 years ago

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