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- A birder spotted a rare leucistic Great Cormorant among a group of regular cormorants at Ameenpur Lake.
- The bird exhibited white feathers due to reduced pigmentation rather than albinism.
- This documented sighting is notable because of the scarcity of recorded instances of this specific condition in Great Cormorants in India.
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Telangana Today[1]
Rare leucistic Great Cormorant spotted at Ameenpur Lake in HyderabadTelangana Today[2]
Rare leucistic great cormorant spotted at Ameenpur Lake
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Raghuvamsh Chavali
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“For almost a month, due to personal reasons, I hadn’t travelled or gone out to take photographs with my camera. So when I finally got a chance to go out last Sunday, I wanted to go back to somewhere old — Ameenpur Lake”
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…memorable experience on Sunday when he spotted the leucistic Great Cormorant. Like a pro, he took time to confirm the rare sighting in India after verifying it with other sources and birder friends across the country. “ For almost a month, due to personal reasons, I hadn’t travelled or gone out to take photographs with my camera. So when I finally got a chance to go out last Sunday, I wanted to go back to somewhere old — Ameenpur Lake ,” Raghuvamsh informed ‘Telangana Today’. “I wasn’t expecting anything special. Suddenly, I noticed a pale bird near the water from a distance. I didn’t think much of it. In fact, it looked so pale that I thought it was…
“I wasn’t expecting anything special. Suddenly, I noticed a pale bird near the water from a distance. I didn’t think much of it. In fact, it looked so pale that I thought it was a duck!”
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…I hadn’t travelled or gone out to take photographs with my camera. So when I finally got a chance to go out last Sunday, I wanted to go back to somewhere old — Ameenpur Lake,” Raghuvamsh informed ‘Telangana Today’. “ I wasn’t expecting anything special. Suddenly, I noticed a pale bird near the water from a distance. I didn’t think much of it. In fact, it looked so pale that I thought it was a duck! If it was alone, I might have got my camera out and taken a couple of pictures,” he explained. “They were regular cormorants. In the middle of them was this incredibly pale bird. This was when it hit me that I should…
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