First there was Chalky the all-white blackbird - and now another rare bird has been spotted in Norfolk - Alby the albino sparrow.
Cy Campbell took a photograph of Alby in his garden in Whissonsett, near Fakenham.
He said: “I was certain it was a leucistic bird at first, but with the red eyes and light beak colour I’m sure it is a true albino.
“An albino sparrow is quite a rare thing as most white sparrows are leucistic, which is a genetic mutation which cuts out colour pigmentation. This one has red eyes making it an albino, I believe.”
Rupert Masefield, from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, said its red eyes probably meant it was a true albino.
He said: “They are quite unusual everywhere, not just in Norfolk, because they have this rare genetic trait.”
It comes just weeks after Chalky, an all-white blackbird, caused a flap in a garden in Itteringham, near Aylsham.
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