Crested Caracara
two different birds perched in the same tree
Southeast Metro Park,
Travis Co., Texas
13 April 2013
This record gleaned from field journals I kept between 1968 and 2002. The first 6500+ records I posted on iNat had photo documentation, but now I am posting these records which do not have photos just to provide the data point for the species and location as best as I can for the historical record. I will also add a number to represent the approximate number of individuals of this species I recorded on the given day if more than one. My lifer Crested Caracara.
Irons Ln, Sussex Co., DE March 9, 2013. Not a well-known vagrant but there have been a number of presumed wild birds in the East this winter. Previously unrecorded from DE.
Out of focus flight shot from a moving car of a Crested Caracara flying away from a road-killed skunk.
Goliad Co., Texas
8 Feb 2013
The Northern Crested Caracara, Northern Caracara, or Crested Caracara as it is properly known where it lives in the Americas, is a bird of prey in the family Falconidae.
Crested Caracara
Guaraguaco común
Sin. Polyborus plancus
Crested Caracara
Osceola County, Florida
2-17-08
(Northern) Crested Caracara, Caracara cheriway (Jacquin, 1784). Viera, Florida. USA. Photo by David L. Govoni ©2012
Cornell: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Crested_Caracara/id
EoL: eol.org/pages/4376771/overview
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Crested_Caracara
These two Crested Caracaras were photographed on a ranch on Kenedy Co., Texas as they perched on the carcass of a cow.
Crested Caracara
Caracara cheriway
adult in flight
near McCook,
Hidalgo Co., Texas
23 May 2006
Crested Caracara
Caracara cheriway
immature bird
near McCook,
Hidalgo Co., Texas
7 April 2006
This species is quite common in this area
One Caracara was hanging out with a large flock of Black and Turkey Vultures.
Single, between sugar cane and dry scrublands
