Angel, the red-tailed hawk, is leucistic, similar to being albino. While an albino animal loses all of its pigmentation, a leucistic animal only loses part; both conditions, scientists say, can ...

A red-tailed hawk’s diet mainly consists of mice and other small rodents, snakes, squirrels and beetles; in the summer, hawks also tend to munch on grasshoppers.

Red-tailed hawks are typically smaller than bald eagles, reaching a wingspan between 3.4 and 4.8 feet as adults, while a bald eagle's wingspan can reach between 5.9 and 7.5 feet as an adult.

Unlike albinism, the MDC stated that the white coloring is caused by the lack of multiple types of pigments and not just melanin.

I’ve decided I want to come back as a canyon wren. They’re not that pretty, although they have the same rust coloring as a red-tailed hawk. But they have the most mellifluous and evocative song, like ...

The injuries stood out against his pale coloring. Though classified as a red-tailed hawk, his feathers were uncharacteristically muted. That’s because he has a rare genetic condition called leucism.