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An account of a rare sighting: a leucistic, or a nearly all-white penguin, by a National Geographic expedition team in Antarctica:

Despite colorful variation in facial patterns, all penguins are decked  in the standard black and white pattern. This is no accident.  Counter-shading camouflage in so necessary to diving birds that all are  fundamentally alike. But to our astonishment we found an exception. At  the water’s edge stood a leucistic Chinstrap. This bird was whitish, but  not quite an albino. Instead, it had pigmented eyes and a washed-out  version of a Chinstrap’s normal pattern. Many wondered about this  unusual bird’s chances of success. While odd coloration may make fishing  a bit more difficult, leucistic birds are regularly found breeding  normally.


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    *O* it’s beautiful
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    I love the leucistic gators at Gatorland and I love this little bird too. Sorry Wiki is down or you could look up...
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