We got the photo above Thursday from a reader who reported that “our teenage daughter spotted a rare albino ‘piebald’ buck in our yard this morning. Not sure if newsworthy, but we thought it was pretty cool. Our south Georgia family had never even seen one.”
“Piebald” deer have pigmented backgrounds with white, unpigmented patterns, and other animal breeds with similar conditions include birds, cattle, dogs and cats, horses, foxes and pigs.
A UGA researcher estimates that piebald deer total less than 2 percent of the deer population, and other estimates figure it’s even rarer than that.
The National Deer Association, which is based near Athens in Bogart, Ga., lays out the differences here between albino, piebald, melanistic and other off-color deer types. In case you spot one like the above in your neighborhood.
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