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.
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