Thursday, April 12, 2012

Somebody special?

As I'd recounted earlier on this forum, there's a gentleman who regularly feeds pigeons around sevenish, every morning. It's quite absorbing to note as to how the birds conglomerate minutes before that waiting for the benevolence! They fly in from all directions, perch themselves comfortably on the roof of the nearest shed as well as on the tank top above the water sump - probably, discussing all
that had happened over the previous hours!!

The whole flock is of uniform colour that we're mostly familiar with except for one that's virgin
white. It stands out spectacularly against the backdrop of the remaining seventy or eighty birds. Is
it a special one? Or is the difference in hue due to a flaw, I mean, a medical problem like er,
Leukoderma or problems of pigmentation - a sort of genetic disorder that it has inherited? Do birds
have this error like the humans?

I'd like to believe that its whiteness is its natural hue. A special one indeed!

A general human weakness for fair skin, huh? Aw shucks, and all this while I was under the impression that I was free of such vagaries!   

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