First Record of True Albinism in a Natural Population of Collared Flycatchers Ficedula albicollis

Miklós Laczi; Márton Herényi; Gergely Hegyi; János Török

doi:10.5253/arde.v107i3.a8

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Miklós Laczihttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9235-2553,^1,2,* Márton Herényi,^1,3 Gergely Hegyi,¹ János Török^1,4

¹1Behavioural Ecology Group, Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd Univers
²2The Barn Owl Foundation, Temesvári út 8., H-8744 Orosztony, Hungary
³3Department of Zoology and Animal Ecology, Szent István University, Páter Károly utca 1., H-2100 Göd
⁴4Ecology Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C, Budapest H-1

^*corresponding author (laczimiklos@caesar.elte.hu)

Abstract

Albinism is a remarkably rare colour deficiency among natural populations of bird species. Here we document the first record of true albinism in a wild population of Collared Flycatchers Ficedula albicollis. We found a nest of two albino and three melanised nestlings, and the former became progressively underdeveloped and perished by the end of the nestling feeding period. It is possible that parents differentiated between chick types when provisioning the brood or that the albinos were of lower competitive ability; these could be additional reasons for the rare occurrence of this phenotype in the wild.

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Miklós Laczi, Márton Herényi, Gergely Hegyi, and János Török "First Record of True Albinism in a Natural Population of Collared Flycatchers Ficedula albicollis," Ardea 107(3), 340-343, (22 January 2020). https://doi.org/10.5253/arde.v107i3.a8

Received: 31 July 2019; Accepted: 7 October 2019; Published: 22 January 2020

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