Leucism can occur in almost any kind of animal, but it seems to be most common in birds. Over the years I’ve seen crows with one white wing, a robin with a white head and a red-tailed hawk that ...

A Mississippi turkey hunter harvested a rare white turkey on opening day of the season. The bird, believed to be leucistic, ...

When this occurs, it does not usually cover the bird's entire body white but rather only bits and pieces. It is called Leucism or partial Albinism. This is not common, but it happens often enough ...

Silver or “smoke phase” turkeys, like the one Windom shot, have a genetic disorder known as leucism, which is similar to but distinct from albinism. Leucism results in abnormal pigmentation of an ...

Of those millions of birds, less than 200 have a condition called leucism — a sort of cell defect that turns their normally brown feathers white. One of these birds is now under the care of a ...

Wildlife rangers in Belize saw an oddly colored creature fall from a tree and later identified it as a Spix’s disc-winged bat with leucism. Photo from Getty Images / iStockphoto In a rainforest ...