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savalmandy says...
perhaps it's a hybrid, maybe a rook/magpie cross. I recently read about different
types of corvids breeding but can't remember where i read it, somewhere online i think.
looks amazing!!!!

I'm fairly sure that it hasnt got any magpie in it, there are many magpies in that area but they are very distinctive with long tails and very defined markings, and certainly not white wings - there are also many types of hooded crow which can vary from looking a bit like jackdaws to a bit like rooks, so I think it might have something in common with them, it is very pretty, I just hope I see it again soon so I can get a better picture.
Josh.

cere josh not sear! keep up!

May just be a genetic mutation, my mother informed me yesterday that about 10miles along from where I live there are 2 pure white rooks!!! I'd love to see them, she says one of them has been around for a couple of years, the other she only noticed recently plus further north from here is a Jackdaw (definately a Jackdaw as we don't have Magpies up here) who has several pure white feathers scattered over it's body and another which looks almost checkered it has so much white!! These must all be mutations of some sort. I might see if my hubby fancies trying to get some photos of them.

savalmandy says...
May just be a genetic mutation, my mother informed me yesterday that about 10miles along from where I live there are 2 pure white rooks!!! I'd love to see them, she says one of them has been around for a couple of years, the other she only noticed recently plus further north from here is a Jackdaw (definately a Jackdaw as we don't have Magpies up here) who has several pure white feathers scattered over it's body and another which looks almost checkered it has so much white!! These must all be mutations of some sort. I might see if my hubby fancies trying to get some photos of them.

Have found out that albinism is very rare indeed in crows but not unknown in rooks and jackdaws, hope you can get some pics. Josh has posted pics of albino rooks on the website under UFC's photo album, one seen near Whitby, and the other of Master Chalk as seen in the tv series Gormenghast from the classic novels by Mervyn Peake. We are trying to find out more about Jimmy White who played the part. Hope Magic doing well, Jo

merlintherook says...
Have found out that albinism is very rare indeed in crows but not unknown in rooks and jackdaws, hope you can get some pics. Josh has posted pics of albino rooks on the website under UFC's photo album, one seen near Whitby, and the other of Master Chalk as seen in the tv series Gormenghast from the classic novels by Mervyn Peake. We are trying to find out more about Jimmy White who played the part. Hope Magic doing well, Jo

Love the pics of the white rooks! Hopefully get some pics of the ones near here but still not got the car fixed so stranded at home. Hubby is the photographer so hoping to persuade him to go and get some photos. M

I've had a look at this bird again, it's around quite alot.
it's hanging out with two other young black rooks who have not got cere's yet so that leads me to think that it's definately a rook,
I still havent got a really good photo of it yet, I will try again soon.
Josh.