Genetically rare birds are starting to call Missouri home. Just months after a rare yellow Northern Cardinal was photographed ...

Tuffy, a red-tailed hawk being raised by a bald eagles ... including the case of a white-tailed sea eagle, which adopted a common buzzard. She said the phenomenon is rare but occurs frequently ...

Some are dark brown with distinctive white marks, while others display ... The smaller, long-tailed gray hawk (Buteo plagiatus) is a neotropical species ranging from the Amazon Basin through ...

According to the Missouri Department of Conservation, the all-white and red-tailed hawk has a condition known as leucism or piebald, which occurs when their is a loss of pigmentation in the animal ...

A “rare” raptor with all-white coloration due to pigmentation ... that the locally beloved bird – a leucistic red-tailed hawk – was on their property and unable to fly, according to ...

The hawk chick has a fluffy white head and a much smaller beak than the eaglets, who are brown and already have the pronounced beak bald eagles are known for. A baby red-tailed hawk was plucked by ...

Though classified as a red-tailed hawk, his feathers were uncharacteristically ... leucism causes partial loss of all types of pigmentation, leading to white coloration. A tell between leucism ...

NEW YORK — Pale Male, a red-tailed hawk who began nesting high above Fifth ... Pale Male got his name because of his white plumage. He was first spotted in Central Park as a juvenile in 1991 ...

13.5 x 10.75 in. (34.3 x 27.3 cm.) ...

A mostly-white Red-tailed Hawk was found on Thursday caught in chicken wire on the homeowners' property after it had been hunting their chickens, according to Jennifer Rodriguez, a volunteer with ...