Genetically rare birds are starting to call Missouri home. Just months after a rare yellow Northern Cardinal was photographed in a St. Louis resident's backyard, homeowners in Wentzville ...

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 common hawk of wet deciduous woodlands ... The primaries are barred or checkered black and white, the dark tail has 3 white bands. Underparts are rufous with white barring.

The “chicken hawk” of colonial America ... Juvenile: brown above, with rufous edges and white spots on upperwing coverts. Tail long, with straight bands and wide, white tip that wears down ...