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Related: About this forumAnchorage's white raven becomes a local legend as a tracked trickster
Since October of last year, Anchorage has been visited by a rare, feathered celebrity a white raven, which appears to have taken up residence in the Spenard neighborhood.
Last summer, the raven was spotted south of Anchorage on the Kenai Peninsula, where biologists confirmed the bird is not an albino but leucistic which means it has a gene that causes a loss of pigmentation. It also has blue eyes. Biologists believe its most likely the same bird that has delighted Anchorage this winter.
https://alaskapublic.org/2024/01/30/anchorages-white-raven-becomes-a-local-legend-as-a-tracked-trickster/
AllaN01Bear
(19,071 posts)Probatim
(2,567 posts)Probably why they have a bad rap.
One of the few birds I've seen that looks like they have fun while flying. While on North Lookout at Hawk Mountain a few years ago, I picked up a raven coming toward the spotting station, I called him out, and as everyone swung their binoculars to it, he barrel-rolled for no apparent reason - except that maybe he could.
5-6 of us, in unison, said "barrel roll". His antics and our reaction to them made us all laugh.
AllaN01Bear
(19,071 posts)cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)blm
(113,158 posts)living wild on our property.
MiHale
(9,835 posts)One was a white one because of the Bird Diversity Initiative.
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