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Leucistic Redtail!


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Long story short, this particular hawk has been visiting us for just over a year. I've spent all that time trying to get a decent photo & this ain't it......yet.

It's managed to thwart 4 different trail cameras & me sitting for 4 straight, 14 hour days in a blind.聽

I dumped a deer carcass out in one of my fields a few days ago with hopes of getting some trail cam photos of coyotes & lo and behold, guess who shows up the morning right AFTER the wind blew my trail camera off target......馃が

This was taken from my dining room window, with my phone, through 10x binos聽馃檮

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Just now, TomInMN said:

Oh, wow!

Is leucistic a synonym for albino?

Not quite....Albino means the body produces聽no melonin & therefore there is zero pigmentation

Leucism is simply a pure, or mostly pure white color variant. There's still eye, beak & leg color where an albino would be pink in those areas.

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1 hour ago, robtattoo said:

Not quite....Albino means the body produces聽no melonin & therefore there is zero pigmentation

Leucism is simply a pure, or mostly pure white color variant. There's still eye, beak & leg color where an albino would be pink in those areas.

That's good to know. Thanks for sharing, your knowledge and your photos!

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3 hours ago, Capbyrd said:

I love birds of prey. 聽 He's beautiful. 聽

Me too. We have some Coopers Hawks and Red Tails around here. I just love listening to them and watching them soar around.

I've been lucky enough to see a Red Tail grab a water snake and actually carry it off. I saw him land and really tear into it.聽

Another time, one of the Coopers chased a squirrel around and caught it, only to drop it. The squirrels really put up a fight. lol

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