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 Caracara or Northern Crested Caracara (Caracara cheriway), called Audubon's Caracara in former times, is a bird of prey in the family Falconidae. It was formerly considered conspecific with the Southern Caracara (C. plancus) and the extinct Guadalupe Caracara (C. lutosa) as the "Crested Caracara" – a name still commonly used for the Northern Caracara. As its relatives, the Northern Caracara was formerly placed in the genus Polyborus. Un
