Pictured is a nest of four bluebirds. Yes, you read that correctly. They are all bluebirds but obviously two of them are white. For all you bird enthusiasts, having one white bluebird is not common but not unheard of but to have two in one bluebird nest is astronomical. In fact, the odds of having two white bluebirds in one nest is one in a billion according to Prescott Bluebird.
This nest is located in the Plowville area where my husband, Ed, monitors and maintains eight bluebird boxes. When he made this discovery last week, he knew this was one of a kind event. After some research, we discovered just how rare this is.
These white bluebirds are not albinos but leucistic. Albino bluebirds would lack pigmentation in their eyes and thus would be pink. As you can see in the photos, their eyes are dark.
My husband took these photographs and we have shared them with Jack Holcomb from Jack’s Backyard which can be heard Saturday mornings on WEEU.
At this point, these white bluebirds should have fledged meaning they should have left the nest.
So rare a sight…….probably never see such a sight again.