Video: Rare '˜white morph' squirrel spotted in West Sussex
![The 'morph' white squirrel. Photo: Vicky Bell and Rikki Kay](https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/webimg/legacy_oak_98909234.jpg?crop=3:2,smart&width=640&quality=65&enable=upscale)
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Vicky Bell said she and her partner Rikki Kay were out walking on Sunday (October 15) when they spotted the squirrel.
She said: “We were walking up from Worth Church, along Church Road, Crawley, when we saw a flash of white next to us.
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Hide Ad“We realised that this might be quite unusual and so we took a photo and a video, and now believe it to be a rare ‘white morph’ squirrel.
![The 'morph' white squirrel. Photo: Vicky Bell and Rikki Kay](https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/webimg/legacy_oak_98909234.jpg?crop=3:2,smart&width=640&quality=65)
![The 'morph' white squirrel. Photo: Vicky Bell and Rikki Kay](/img/placeholder.png)
“According to wildlife experts, fewer than one in a million are born with the gene that produces this dramatic look.
“This is to be distinguished from a white albino squirrel as it has black eyes rather than red.”