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| browning525 |
Posted - 26/03/2010 : 22:26:07
Hi everyone....wondered if anyone had ever seen a newt before that was the colour of pure white or lightest shade of pink possible?
I'm a gamekeeper, one thing I look after is a pond. Last year, kids bricked to death over a dozen young mallard ducklings, poached the fish & had late night parties. Now I patrol the acres & pond day & night.
Tonight, I was checking the waters edge & amongst the tree roots that are submerged just inches below the water, I noticed something. Closer inspection ( by torch light ) was a newt, no crest, no markings, looked like pink eyes, & white/lite pink body. Looked like an albino newt. Has anyone ever seen one before? Like an idiot, it was an hour after when I thought " Take a pic with my camera" but by that time, it had gone.
If we have something like this that is 100% endangered, then I'm sure we can takes steps into preseving this site & erect something where the kids/tresspassers cant interfer with them.
Any idea's what this could have been? Im in the East Midlands of England. |
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| punkman |
Posted - 01/04/2010 : 17:54:39
as kazeralla says, you can get albinos in most species, look here for a pic of an albino alpine newthttp://www.fotosearch.com/JNB006/135938/
However I had a female smooth newt that was very very light in colour, and shone out like a torch asgainst all the others, so it may just be a very light cloured newt?
I thought that mine was albino untill I caught it to take a look and saw that it didnt have pink eyes |
| Kazerella |
Posted - 29/03/2010 : 11:43:33
I think albino is a natural occurance in many species, so it could be an albino variety of a common newt, but if I were you I would still contact the environmental agency because a lot of newts native to England are considered endangered or at risk anyway, so they might put extra precautions in place regardless if you can show that it's a place that newts breed.
If you do ever see it again it would be great to see a picture. I'm intrigued. |
| Kehhlyr |
Posted - 27/03/2010 : 02:20:27
Roughly how big was it?
did it look like this: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/EoHO361yq49J4u3my6ut4g
If so then it was more than likely an Axolotl
If you get a chance to get a piccy that would be fab as it'd make it much easier to identify. |
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