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I know it's a Blue Jay but I am wondering if this Blue Jay is leucistic?

It was taken this morning (5/14/2026) in Delray Beach FL.

Looks like it! Good looking bird

Is it just washed out by the angle of the light?

Charlie Spencer wrote: Fri May 15, 2026 10:03 am Is it just washed out by the angle of the light?

It was under a tree canopy so there wasn't much light. There were two, but I don't remember if the other had a blue head. Neither of them stuck around long enough. I didn't get a shot of the other one.

To me the most impressive part is that you know how to spell leucistic. Because I never can.

Kevin wrote: Fri May 15, 2026 12:32 pm To me the most impressive part is that you know how to spell leucistic. Because I never can.

Some of us went to school outside of Texas.

Charlie Spencer wrote: Fri May 15, 2026 1:44 pm

Kevin wrote: Fri May 15, 2026 12:32 pm To me the most impressive part is that you know how to spell leucistic. Because I never can.

Some of us went to school outside of Texas.

And then, decades later, because of a birding message board like this one, some of us looked the word up on Google to understand the new word we dont remember hearing about in school.