Albino Animals you have seen in the wild

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).
 
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 :rolleyes:

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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.
 
I've seen a couple partial albinos, including Black-tailed Deer, American Robin, and Spotted Towhee, but no full albinos yet.
 
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.
 
Ebirah766 said:
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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.
 
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