Description

A Crested Caracara (Caracara cheriway) stands alert in the middle of a field of Dandelion flowers at the Laguna Seca Ranch near Edinburg Texas. The Crested Caracara looks like a hawk with its sharp beak and talons, behaves like a vulture, and is technically a large tropical black-and-white falcon. It is instantly recognizable standing tall on long yellow-orange legs with a sharp black cap set against a white neck and yellow-orange face. The Crested Caracara is a bird of open country and reaches only a few states in the southern U.S. It flies low on flat wings, and routinely walks on the ground. A common subject of folklore and legends throughout Central and South America, the Crested Caracara is sometimes called the "Mexican eagle".



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