# Most interesting color mutations you have seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Nature Talk\ **Created:** [August 2, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-interesting-color-mutations-you-have-seen/15066 "2020-08-02T21:34:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![birdwhisperer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/birdwhisperer/32/3455_2.png) [@birdwhisperer](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/birdwhisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2020, 4:14pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-interesting-color-mutations-you-have-seen/15066/41 "2020-08-29T16:14:21Z")
It is depigmentated. The undertail being white is a common MODO phenotype but not the undertail coverts as well. Additionally, you’ll notice the entire tail is white when normally pigmented doves have black tips to rectrices. [https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/199811011](https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/199811011) ---
**Author:** ![tripleaxel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tripleaxel/32/4798_2.png) [@tripleaxel](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tripleaxel)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 11:56pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-interesting-color-mutations-you-have-seen/15066/42 "2020-09-29T23:56:54Z")
I have two though iI didn’t have my camera for either of them ☹ the first one was of a black-backed gull (Larus marinus) that had several white feathers along its wing which are normally black. The second of was of a pure black pigeon. ---
**Author:** ![jasonhernandez74](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jasonhernandez74/32/33615_2.png) [@jasonhernandez74](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jasonhernandez74)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2020, 3:14am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-interesting-color-mutations-you-have-seen/15066/43 "2020-10-01T03:14:25Z")
When I was doing my master’s thesis, I had thousands of Southern toad _Anaxyrus terrestris_ tadpoles. Normally, these are very dark brown, but I noticed that a small percentage of them were a golden color. My professor asked me to make a note of the numbers of each, because he had never seen that before. When they emerged as metamorphs, the normal dusky tadpoles were normal brown toads, but the golden tadpoles were beige toads. Raising them to adulthood was beyond the scope of my project, but it would have been interesting to see if they retained their color differences. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/7/7831452cf7f0d653ff1ffd34176334b7ef1b6a17.png) [@system](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 3:14am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-interesting-color-mutations-you-have-seen/15066/44 "2020-11-30T03:14:31Z")
Closed on November 30, 2020, 3:14am UTC This topic was automatically closed 60 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed. ---
**Author:** ![drinkingjetfuel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/drinkingjetfuel/32/59052_2.png) [@drinkingjetfuel](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/drinkingjetfuel)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 12:29am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-interesting-color-mutations-you-have-seen/15066/45 "2025-09-06T00:29:21Z")
share your observations of organisms in unusual colours for their species my contribution is this white cricket- there are no crickets in my area that are normally white ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/3/9/39d6a5d530f3087023ee2684c22d90c95f1daacf.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![jasonhernandez74](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jasonhernandez74/32/33615_2.png) [@jasonhernandez74](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jasonhernandez74)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 12:59am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-interesting-color-mutations-you-have-seen/15066/46 "2025-09-06T00:59:25Z")
> [@drinkingjetfuel](#): > > my contribution is this white cricket Now, that is something. You must have found it right after it molted, before the new exoskeleton hardened. ---
**Author:** ![t\_0x16c](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/t_0x16c/32/51038_2.png) [@t\_0x16c](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/t_0x16c)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 4:52am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-interesting-color-mutations-you-have-seen/15066/47 "2025-09-06T04:52:42Z")
Can’t you just search for any observation tagged “albinistic” or “leucistic”? ---
**Author:** ![jasonhernandez74](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jasonhernandez74/32/33615_2.png) [@jasonhernandez74](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jasonhernandez74)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-interesting-color-mutations-you-have-seen/15066/48 "2025-09-06T20:52:44Z")
That isn’t the only possibility of an unusual color. ---
**Author:** ![keeana](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/keeana/32/59949_2.png) [@keeana](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/keeana)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 9:06pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-interesting-color-mutations-you-have-seen/15066/49 "2025-09-06T21:06:27Z")
i’ll contribute [this](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/293653622) erythristic partridge planthopper nymph! exciting find for me ---
**Author:** ![drinkingjetfuel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/drinkingjetfuel/32/59052_2.png) [@drinkingjetfuel](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/drinkingjetfuel)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 10:39pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-interesting-color-mutations-you-have-seen/15066/50 "2025-09-06T22:39:27Z")
i made this thread inspired by all of the colour ones, and this is for any unique colours unusual to the species, not just those two ^w^ ---
**Author:** ![cthawley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/cthawley/32/1445_2.png) [@cthawley](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/cthawley)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-interesting-color-mutations-you-have-seen/15066/51 "2025-09-07T14:54:18Z")
Opened on September 7, 2025, 2:54pm UTC ---
**Author:** ![cthawley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/cthawley/32/1445_2.png) [@cthawley](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/cthawley)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-interesting-color-mutations-you-have-seen/15066/52 "2025-09-07T14:54:43Z")
I merged the above thread into this previous one and reopened since they have the same topics. ---
**Author:** ![drinkingjetfuel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/drinkingjetfuel/32/59052_2.png) [@drinkingjetfuel](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/drinkingjetfuel)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 2:30am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-interesting-color-mutations-you-have-seen/15066/53 "2025-09-08T02:30:45Z")
I’ll have to see if i can get a picture, but there is a squirrel (not sure if its a fox squirrel or a grey squirrel) that i call Maple that visits my yard that has a striped tail, in rings almost like a raccoon [Previous page](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-interesting-color-mutations-you-have-seen/15066.md?page=2)