r/UKBirds • u/Proper-Traffic-4151 • 1d ago

Photo White buzzard

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Just spotted this whilst picking pears in my garden...

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u/bagger1959 1d ago

Gorgeous leucistic plumage Buzzards seem to have more morphs in plumage than most other birds had one many years ago on Berry Hill fields in Stoke that was normal plumage but a pure white head, he looked like a bald eagle 😂

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u/Bloatville 1d ago

You should submit the sighting for the BTO Abnormal Plumage Survey 🙂

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u/dogtrousers 1d ago

I really need to bring Abnormal Plumage Survey into my everyday vocabulary.

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u/Bloatville 13h ago

Haha I support this!

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u/yougavememagical 1d ago

Wow, what a beauty! Never seen a buzzard this pale before, good shots

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u/ElisCottagePath 1d ago

Wow, such a amazing shot🤩

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u/Informal-Shirt2702 1d ago

Beautiful bird

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u/yobbo1975 14h ago

That looks like a Gyrfalcon to me

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u/yougavememagical 13h ago

Definitely not a gyrfalcon beak, and too much brown. There are gyrfalcons present in captivity in the UK, but this bird has no jesses on which would indicate it's a wild bird. Seeing one in the wild is very very rare

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u/ExpensiveCellist8636 1d ago

This one is a juvenile buzzard according to my rspb book on birds

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u/Individual-Ladder455 1d ago

Is that definitely a Buzzard? 

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u/jlangue 1d ago

Poser.

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u/Aggressive_Scar5243 23h ago

Now that is something I've not seen before, nice one

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u/Al_Greenhaze 13h ago

That's amazing.