Once in a lifetime bird today

[Knight.54]

I shot a leucistic Mourning Dove this afternoon..ever seen one?

 

[Nick87]

I've shot a LOT of doves. Never seen one before. Pretty cool.

 

[Sask hunter]

Cool bird!

 

[crock239]

Cool. Never heard of one much less seen one.

Did you know that's what it was...or was there some post-harvest googling?

Edit: had to Google it myself and learned something new today...thanks again HT!

 

[Knight.54]

Cool. Never heard of one much less seen one.

Did you know that's what it was...or was there some post-harvest googling?

Edit: had to Google it myself and learned something new today...thanks again HT!

I was pretty sure that’s what it was….definitely have learned how to spell it correctly this evening. My buddy I was hunting with has killed a leucistic mallard in Saskatchewan. He said he read in mallards it occurs in one bird in 80,000!

 

[Mtrose]

I’ve never seen one before; that’s really cool.

 

[gouch]

Every year we fish at my favorite lake. For five years running we would see a leucistic Canada goose swimming around. Only I never heard the word leucistic before so it was just, "Hey, there's that weird goose again." every time we would see it.

Learned something new today.

 

[Hilljackoutlaw]

Thats cool!! Had one living on the property a couple years back. Never could get a good pic of it.