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

Is it a juvenile red-tailed hawk in dark form?" asks Birds & Blooms reader Carl Muehlemeyer of Broomfield, Colorado. A surefire way to tell an adult red-tailed from a juvenile is to look at its tail.

He was looking at “a near fully leucistic red-tailed hawk ... “I have been birder my whole adult life and I saw one partially leucistic redtail hawk on the coast of California that I ...

Tami Gingrich details species of hawks and owls that migrate south in the winter and can potentially be spotted in Ohio.

Birders in the Berkshires brave winter’s chill for the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count, a tradition of counting and ...

Adult females grow up to 3.5 feet ... Nicknamed “red-tail,” the red-tailed hawk is a large bird of prey found throughout North and South America. It’s one of the largest hawks on Earth!

An adult male mule deer can weigh up to 330 lbs ... Flying bird of prey above the field meadow, Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis, landing in the forest. Wildlife scene from nature. Image via ...

Red-tailed hawks (Buteo jamaicensis) are the most common hawk found in North America ... the larva crawls out of the water and the adult slowly emerges. Parks has inventoried dragonflies in NYC since ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – A red-tailed hawk was rescued after a Chicopee family found it in their backyard unable to fly.

On the afternoon of Dec. 12, a red-tailed hawk was released in Mesa Verde National Park, about a month after it was injured ...