I searched the forum for phenomena and oddities to see if a discussion/request had been previously made and was unable to find a thread.
Recently while identifying Ebony Jewelwings I came across an observation that had half clear and half black wings, completely out of the ordinary, at least that I am aware. I purposely did not ID it but commented alerting an expert.
I was thinking, that over the years, I have seen a number of “oddities” and thought it would be beneficial in some way to have a means to identfy these. Perhaps, add an additional annotation? with clarifiers? I would imagine this would include leucism, albinism and any other terms specific to nature phenomena.
I know this is not the focus of your post, but is it possible it was a different species in the same genus. River Jewelwings and Sparkling Jewelwings have wings that are half black and half clear.
There are a number of existing observation fields that can be used for things like leucism, albinism, etc.
For example, see the Aberrant Type observation field.
swampster, thanks for the feedback. I was unaware of that field and will use this in the future. As for the Jewelwing, although I am not an expert, I am familiar with jewelwings and it was an anomaly in wing coloring. Unfortunately I am unable to find the observation. Thanks again.