BANGOR DAILY NEWS • February 19, 2021
In late fall, Shelley Martin was looking out a window of her home in Warren when she spied an unusual, ghostly songbird. Perched in the evergreen trees not far from her birdfeeder, the small bird was bright white. She’d never seen anything like it. Based on the bird’s size and shape, she initially thought it was an albino black-capped chickadee. Martin believes her white bird is leucistic. Leucism is an umbrella term that describes a number of plumage irregularities that can cause white feathers.