{"id":612753,"date":"2026-04-29T06:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T06:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/612753\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T06:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T06:25:10","slug":"extremely-rare-piebald-deer-couple-found-roaming-long-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/612753\/","title":{"rendered":"Extremely rare piebald deer couple found roaming Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0An extremely rare pair of breeding deer was recently spotted on Long Island, according to reports. <\/p>\n

The striking pair of piebald deer, consisting of a buck and a doe, was found within the Long Island Pine Barrens in Suffolk County, Pix11 reported. <\/a><\/p>\n

\"AThe striking pair of piebald deer, consisting of a buck and a doe, was found within the Long Island Pine Barrens in Suffolk County. Pix11<\/p>\n

Piebald deer \u2014 which are born with a rare genetic condition that gives them patches of white hair mixed with their normal brown colored hair \u2014 appear in only about 1% of the white-tailed deer population, according to a report for the Southeast Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At least one of the stark white deer with small dark spots has been captured in a series of photographs in a wooded eastern Long Island backyard since December, Newsday reported. <\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI was actually shocked when I first saw it,\u201d the resident, Logan K, told CBS New York<\/a> earlier this month. \u201cIt was pretty cool, actually, to know what it was.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"WhiteAt least one of the stark white deer with small dark spots has been captured in a series of photographs in a wooded eastern Long Island backyard since December. Pix11<\/p>\n

The mystical deer are born when two parents share the rare recessive piebald gene, according to experts.<\/p>\n

The deer couple appears in good health and are expected to mate this spring, Pix11 reported.<\/p>\n

Some states outlaw shooting piebald deer due to their rarity, and local Long Island experts warned the public to stay away from the creatures and avoid hunting them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0An extremely rare pair of breeding deer was recently spotted on Long Island, according to reports. The striking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1147,10740,2239,5871,79,40358,201],"class_list":["post-612753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-deer","tag-long-island","tag-metro","tag-science","tag-suffolk-county","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}