Albino Animals you have seen in the wild

Has anyone seen wild albino animals? I have seen albino White-Tailed Deer, but that is it.

 

Many people use the term albino generically to refer to any unusual white morph, which can be either albino or leucistic (subtle differences that I will not go into now). This post is unusually timely for me. Yesterday driving home from the Grand Canyon, I saw a white (leucistic) red tailed hawk along Interstate 17 south of Flagstaff. A post on an Arizona bird forum confirms that it has been seen in this same spot for the last three years or so. Unfortunately there was no place to stop for a photo (and I don't have a long enough telephoto to get a great shot anyway).

 

*sigh*

 

I only have seen one, but was very special for me, a baby Ladder Snake some years ago. According with some herpetologist that saw it on my Flickr gallery, this was the first registered albino on the species and I was invited to write an article for the yearbook of the Spanish herpetological society. I know it was just a simple curiosity but for me was thrilling

 

3 out of 4 of the photos are Tapirs.
Here a report about these 2 wild male Brazilian ( lowland ) tapirs :

Albino Lowland Tapirs discovered in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest | De Gruyter Science Discoveries

and :

https://www.degruyter.com/view/jour...9-0084/article-10.1515-mammalia-2019-0084.xml

 

While I haven’t managed to see a wild albino animal I have managed to see a captive albino Eastern Tiger snake (Notchetis scutatus) which is one of only a few in the world.

 

Not seen by me but evenso very intresting ; first albino Paca seen in the wild :

First record of albinism in the paca Cuniculus paca (Rodentia, Cuniculidae) in southeast Mexico

 

I've seen a couple partial albinos, including Black-tailed Deer, American Robin, and Spotted Towhee, but no full albinos yet.

 

- Not a real albino but evenso a very intresting one :

A Rare White Moose Was Spotted In Ontario & It's So Majestic (PHOTOS)

 

- Again not a real albino but also a very intresting one ; white wild buffalo in Rwanda :

Rare White Buffalo in Rwanda’s National Park

 

Not an albino but extremely interesting, recently I saw a Facebook post located in Melbourne of a leucistic red wattlebird. I do have a picture but I’m on my phone right now so it won’t go into the thread.

 

These are being discovered with camera traps more and more frequently and there was footage obtained of some albino tapir this year in Legado das aguas reserve here in São Paulo state.

I have never seen one of these but I have seen the normally coloured tapir in the wild on several occasions.

Actually, I can't remember ever having seen any albino animals in the wild.

 

And another intresting one : wild camel in China :

Rare albino camel captured on camera in China

 

Not seen by myself and even not a real albino but evenso a beautifull animal, a white tope shark ( also known as school shark, snapper shark and soupfin shark ) :

Rare 'white' shark caught by Waterlooville angler off the coast of the Isle of Wight

 

Leucistic puma seen in 2013 in Brazil :

Extremely rare white cougar highlights a quirk of the species

 

First case of leucism in a caecilian :

https://www.biotaxa.org/hn/article/...SSymijt4LQTCP3nlfHcWjT_ch-40RWDmCOrmoZnjSs0Vo

 

Not technically albino, but I’ve seen a piebald American robin.

 

I've seen an Albino Gray squirrel in the wild.

 

There is currently(or was very recently) an albino Great Northern Diver (Loon in the USA) in the Salcombe Estuary in Devon UK. Not been able to see it myself due to current travel restrictions, but there are plenty of photos of it.

 

A Grey Squirrel in suburban Maidstone. A Starling in a large flock at Elmley Marsh Nature Reserve on the Isle of Sheppey.