What Is It? June 2024

Beggarwood Park is also home to a very rare bird – a leucistic Mapgie with brown and white feathers instead of the usual black and white. Leucism is an abnormal condition of reduced pigmentation in the feathering. Birds with this condition are often referred to as ghost birds.


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  1. I have never seen or heard of this type of Mapgie before – how interesting and special that we have one in our local park

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