Re: [cobirds] Re: December Winter Raptor Survey, and sighting of a mystery buteo

2023-12-20 Thread cogoshawk
In 2012, Dick Schottler and I found a leucistic RTHA during the Denver CBC. It so happens that we found this bird in my neighborhood, which is on the western edge of the count circle. I was fortunate enough to watch this bird, likely a female (she was bigger than any other RTHA that tried to c

Re: [cobirds] Re: December Winter Raptor Survey, and sighting of a mystery buteo

2023-12-19 Thread Ajit Antony
Hi Kevin and everyone else. I looked up Brian K Wheeler's 'Birds of Prey of the East' ( this is the first of his 2 books that came out, and I bought it when I was living in New York). He has a plate devoted to 'Albinos and other Variants,' Plate 34 where he shows albinos and lucistic RTHA, where h

[cobirds] Re: December Winter Raptor Survey, and sighting of a mystery buteo

2023-12-19 Thread 'kevygud...@aol.com' via Colorado Birds
Perhaps the mystery buteo is a leucistic Red-tailed Hawk? Kevin Corwin Centennial, Arapahoe County On Monday, December 18, 2023 at 9:06:48 PM UTC-7 aiant...@gmail.com wrote: > December Winter Raptor Survey of Rocky Mountain Arsenal NWR and DIA Raptor > Alley, with sighting of a mystery buteo >