Bald Eagle with Leucism

[Matt Shetzer]

I thought I'd work up another image of "White Tips" since the background is very different from my previous post.

This Bald Eagle has Leucism, a very unusual condition whereby the pigmentation cells in this bird fail to develop properly. This can result in unusual white patches appearing on the animal. This eagles wing tips have gone white, as well as its talons.

Nikon D300, 500mm f/4, 1/1250 sec, F4, ISO 800
Chilkoot River, Alaska

[arash_hazeghi]

excellent wing positions and detail, some noise reduction on the BG will improve this.

[John Guastella]

+1 on Arash's comments - great image, with an overly-grainy BG that NR will clear right up.

John

[Herb Houghton]

Nice capture of this rare eagle Matt. I agree with the above noise comments and I may even crop tighter on the top and right sides if it were mine. TFS

[donwigle]

Wonderful bird and capture. Only suggestion is slight selective darkening of brightest white areas.

[Harshad Barve]

Excellent image and agreed with Arash here
TFS