If you follow this blog you know I am struck by the number and variety of albino creatures that are on the earth. I never fail to be amazed by the next photo I stumble upon of an animal with albinism. They are all so beautiful.
A Rare treat… an albino hummingbird. Something that is seldom seen and almost NEVER photographed.
Fifteen-year-old photographer Marlin Shank was fortunate enough to capture several images of a rare albino ruby-throated hummingbird while in a park in Staunton, Va.
This is another example of albinism. Where albinism is a condition where the animals has less than normal pigmentation, melanism is a condition where the animal has more than normal pigmentation or melanin.
Check out other posts here for other beautiful examples.
Rare White Hummingbird Photographed by Marlin Shank