Aussie Finch Forum

I'd go with dilute

Have heard of them . . but first pic I've seen

Also same/ similar mutation is found in Peewees (Murray Magpies to the southerners)

Any pix??? . . or anyone keeping them???

We have one almost identicle to that magpie over here in a suburb called lathlain . I was watching it for years to see if it had off spring, amazing to look at but this was before digital cameras....pete

Off topic, but I think the Magpies you have here, make the most beautiful sound. Kind of sci fi sound, but it is awesome. Miss feeding those silly birds

Update on Cream coloured Noisy Minor, It is a Male and nothing from it this time last year just Normals but today i seen another 2 of them probably just a touch darker. So not sure if they have come from this bird or another normal pair.

I have seen a white hawk around here a couple of times over the last few years, he looks really nice, I took a pic but didn't turn out too sharp.

That's probably a white morph grey goshawk, not a mutation

Jayburd wrote:That's probably a white morph grey goshawk, not a mutation

It was a Goshawk, I had a goshawk up on my farm in Breeza about 30 years ago, it had been shot, its funny, everyone use to bring me the sick birds they found, I had the hawk for a while until I found a good home for him, It was fun watching him catch mice when we had a mouse plague at that time.

Another unusual magpie, this one from Beechworth (Vic):

Seen in Dubbo by a member of Dubbo Bird Pages ( facebook group ) recently .

May need to tilt head slightly as stupid photo-bucket wouldn't resize properly.

That one of Mattys's is pretty. And yours is a real ino Deb. Well so much for mutations being unnatural.
LML