Rare blonde mole found in Alderney

The mole, which was white with a yellowish tinge, was discovered while the creatures were being cleared from the grass runway.

It is estimated that only one in 10,000 moles are white.

The mole the officers found is thought to have leucistic genes rather than be an albino – just like the blonde hedgehog – as its eyes were brown rather than pink. This means it had a partial loss of pigmentation rather than a complete absence of pigmentation, or melanin, which is albinism.