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

TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - The Tucson Wildlife Center released a rare red-tail hawk at Salpointe High School after the bird got stuck in a soccer net. Since then, the bird has been rehabilitated ...

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.” ...

They occur in light and dark (rare) morphs ... When flying, a juvenile red-shouldered hawk shows light crescents at base of primaries and a longer tail. Perched, it has a brown tail with dark ...