Color aberration in malachite kingfishers: Insights from community science observations in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda.

Color aberrations in birds corresponds with important ecological functions, including thermoregulation and physiological impacts, camouflage and increased predation, and social interactions with conspecifics. Color aberrations in birds have been reported frequently in the scientific literature, but aberrations in many species remain undocumented or understudied. We investigated records of leucism in malachite kingfishers () from observations of community scientists on iNaturalist and eBird in Uganda.