Rare Leucistic Great Cormorant Sighted at Hyderabad's Ameenpur Lake

Exam-focused facts from the 25 September 2026 current affairs briefing.

Key facts

A rare leucistic Great Cormorant, with mostly white feathers due to reduced pigmentation, was spotted at Ameenpur Lake near BHEL in Hyderabad on Sunday by Hyderabad-born Canadian birder Raghuvamsh Chavali.
Leucistic birds differ from albino birds, though they can sometimes resemble them, and documented records of leucistic Great Cormorants in India are very scarce.
The birder independently verified the sighting with birder friends across the country after finding little online documentation.