FEATURED PHOTO: A LEUCISTIC WILLET IN CALIFORNIA

Abstract

For several weeks in June 2002, a largely white-plumaged Willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus) was observed at the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Orange County, California. During this time, numerous observers saw the bird as it foraged at the reserve and occasionally on the oceanfront at the adjacent Bolsa Chica State Beach. Mike Bowles obtained the photograph shown on this issue’s back cover, which made possible a closer study of this interesting bird.