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

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

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.” ...