[Catalist] Genetics: Leucism: eg: WHITE magpie

[Graham McMahon]

By sheer coincidence, today I saw my first albino kangaroo on a family
property near Nannup. I have now set myself a personal goal to find it
again and get a photo. Given that they have a shorter life expectancy I
think I have about 2 years to find it
On 5 Dec 2015 08:10, "Michael McGarry" <mmcgarry44 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings Science Colleagues,
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> Please forgive me for attaching a small photo of a white magpie
> photographed by Sean McGarry in East Victoria Park on Thursday 03122015.
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> The white magpie was accompanied by a ‘normal' coloured magpie that was
> nearby walking on the ground. The white magpie was not threatened by the
> ‘normal' magpie.
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> I then conducted www research to ascertain the frequency of occurrence of
> white magpies. The white magpie is very probably the white magpie
> photographed at Tomato Lake in 2013.
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> Have you or your students ever seen a white magpie? The white magpie
> photograph could be used as a motivational 'lead-in' to the interesting
> topic of Genetics/Biology in Years 10, 11 and 12.
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> WA Today URL:
> http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/oneinamillion-white-magpie-spotted-in-belmont-20130325-2gpgj.html
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> Wikipedia URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucism
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> Best Wishes,
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> Mike McGarry
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