Plumage aberration observation in House Crow (Corvussplendens) in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu, India

ABSTRACT Plumage anomalies in birds are more prevalent in India, where numerous studies have lately been published. We show an instance of brown plumage aberration in a Common House Crow ( Corvussplendens ) in this report. The plumage of the Common House Crow has been documented in a variety of morp...

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Main Authors: Ashwin C.P, Arjun M.S, Angel Joy
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Zenodo 2022
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7407989
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Summary:ABSTRACT Plumage anomalies in birds are more prevalent in India, where numerous studies have lately been published. We show an instance of brown plumage aberration in a Common House Crow ( Corvussplendens ) in this report. The plumage of the Common House Crow has been documented in a variety of morphs, the majority of which are examples of lucistic and other aberrations. However, the brown aberration observed by us was unusual and has been discussed. Key words: Plumage, brown, aberration, morphs, lucistic REFERENCES Arockianathan, Samson & Princy, J., 2020. A record on colour aberration in Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker in, Himachal Pradesh, India. Zoos' Print Journal 35: 42-44. Dharmakumarsinhji, R. S., 1975. A Whiteheaded duck. Newsletter for Birdwatchers 15(1): 9. Flood, R. L., & Van Grouw, H., 2015. Unfamiliar plumage types of Fulmars in the North Atlantic. Brit. Birds 108: 331-348. Forrest, S. C., & Naveen, R., 2000. Prevalence of leucism in pygocelid penguins of the Antarctic peninsula. Waterbirds , 283-285. Frainer, G., Daudt, N. W., & Carlos, C. J., 2015. Aberrantly plumaged White-chinned Petrels Procellaria aequinoctialis in the Brazilian waters, south-west Atlantic Ocean. Marine Biodiversity Records, 8. Hume, J. P., & van Grouw, H., 2014. Colour aberrations in extinct and endangered birds. Kale, T., 2006. White Crow on the bank of Ujani Dam. ‘Loksatta’ News Paper, Pune edition, 9 September 2006. Mahabal, A. N. I. L., Sharma, R. M., & Sayyed, A. M. I. T., 2015. Colour aberrations in Indian birds. Birding Asia 24: 19-121. Swapna Gurrapu and Estari Mamidala. In vitro HIV-Reverse Transcriptase Inhibition of Andrographolide Isolatedfrom Andrographis Paniculata. European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences. 2017. Volume 4, Issue 12. 516-522. Mancini, P. L., Jiménez, S., Neves, T., & Bugoni, L., 2010. Records of leucism in albatrosses and petrels (Procellariiformes) in the South Atlantic Ocean. Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 18(3): 245-248. Owen, M., & Skimmings, ...