MURRYSVILLE, Pa. (KDKA) — PixCams has been livestreaming and recording Pennsylvania wildlife in action for almost 20 years, and for the first time, one of its trail cams captured a rare sighting of a deer with an odd genetic mutation.
PixCams posted a video on Facebook showing a buck that was both brown and white.
“We see a lot of deer. We just have never seen a piebald deer here,” said Bill Powers, president of PixCams Inc.
Powers was thrilled when the piebald deer popped up on a cellular trail camera on his property in Murrysville last week.
“I know other people have seen them throughout the state. They’re just not that common. But it’s just a very kind of wild oddity to see this, especially when you see a buck. It just makes a little bit more special when you see something like tHat,” Powers said.
“That’s an opportunity to seize and to really appreciate,” said Travis Lau, communications director for the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
Piebald deer are few and far between in Pennsylvania.