He was looking at “a near fully leucistic red-tailed hawk.” Animals with leucism have reduced levels of melanin that often ...

Every birder knows it—hawks are some of the trickiest birds to identify. Sure, it's almost always obvious when you've seen a ...

Here’s how to identify a red-tailed hawk. If you’re unsure if you’re looking at a falcon, look for the LACK of fringed feathers at the edge of the wings on the hawk identification chart.

A common hawk of wet ... reach the tip of the tail. Adult: brown above with lighter feather edges and some streaking on head. Rufous on the upperwing coverts gives the “red shoulders.” ...

This bird made hawk-watching famous ... Dark morph: adult has an all-dark body with dark wing coverts and silvery flight feathers, the dark tail has a wide white band. The juvenile is dark ...