The white kite at Gigrin farm

The red kite is usually a deep reddish-brown in colour – but this one is almost all-white, with icy-blue eyes, due to leucism, or a partial loss of pigmentation.

 

This bird, which I photographed at a red kite feeding station in Rhayader, is believed to be one of just two leucistic red kites in the whole of the mid-Wales region.

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