Snowy Owl With Orange Coloring
Professional photographer Bill Diller captured images of a snowy owl in Huron County, Mich. The reddish-orange coloration in the snowy owl are thought to be the result of an encounter with de-icing fluid used at airports, according to Scott Weidensaul, co-founder of Project SNOWstorm, one of the world's largest collaborative research projects focused exclusively on snowy owls. (Photos by.
Seeing a snowy owl is a magnificent experience - but one Michigan snowy owl is truly unique. What caused the owl to have red-orange feathers? "The most likely explanation is that it was de-icing fluid at an airport, since some formulations are that red-orange color," said Dr Scott Weidensaul, a co. Nobody knows why this snowy owl is orange Bird experts agree Creamsicle is rare - and potentially even unique - in its colouring.
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But they disagree about what's behind the orange feathers. He said "the red coloration seems too red to be caused by" natural pigmentation. He added that "the pigmentation is not very symmetrical and appears on the parts of a normal snowy owl that are white." He surmised that if the bird had a mutation, it would have changed the owl's black patterns, or eumelanin, to orange, or pheomelanin.
That is not how the bird was currently colored. The snowy owl tinged with orange plumage in Michigan. Photo by Julie Maggert A wildlife photographer spent days attempting to capture a picture of a one.
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A Snowy Owl with orange color on some of its feathers was spotted in Michigan and has been captivating the nation. Some people believe this is a genetic mutation but there is reason to believe. Birders have documented a Snowy Owl with unusual orange-red coloring, complete with photographs, but there is no consensus about how the abnormal color was created.
Bill Diller, a birder and photographer living in southeast Michigan, was surprised to hear from a neighbor that a "red-spotted Snowy Owl" was reported in the area of Michigan known as "the Thumb," where several Snowy Owls. While photographing wildlife in eastern Michigan, Julie Maggert spotted a snowy owl with orange coloring on some of its feathers, leaving her to wonder whether it was a rare pigmentation or. If snowy owls are known for one thing, it's their white plumage.
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Their coloring helps them blend in with the frost.
