A wildlife photographer named Terry Nunn recently spent eight hours in pursuit of a rare, white bald eagle. It wasn’t an easy quest, but Nunn says the shots he captured that day are some of the best he’s ever taken.
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Nunn had photographed the leucistic bald eagle in the past, and he was hoping for a repeat last month when he once again drove to southwest Missouri to photograph the rare animal. Leucism is a genetic disorder similar to albinism that affects the amount of pigment in an animal’s fur or feathers. Unlike albinism, leucism results in less pigment and patchy white spots (versus a lack of pigment altogether).
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“I spent 8 hours watching [the leucistic eagle] fly to a few different trees just hoping she would come a little closer,” describes Nunn in his Instagram post sharing his photos. “Finally late in the day she came within a couple hundred yards which is the best opportunity I had gotten in my trips over there. Most shots came with me laying on the ground shooting through fences and trees hoping for quality shots . . . These are some of the photos I’m most proud of in my entire photography career. Not because they’re perfect. But because of what it took to make them and the subject.”
See Nunn’s stunning photos of a white bald eagle here:
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