A Crested Caracara — a falcon with long legs and distinctive colors that’s native to South and Central America — made a rare visit to coastal South Carolina’s Lowcountry, prompting serious birders ...

Walking beneath the hazy evening sun and mesquite trees’ arching branches, Jonathan Meiburg stops along a dusty path and points up toward his left. There, a northern crested caracara ascends into the ...

What looks like a hawk, eats like a vulture but is most closely related to falcons? Meet the crested caracara. The crested caracara (Caracara cheriway) looks like a sturdy hawk. The top of its head is ...

This would be an outstanding clue in a future Jeopardy episode under the category of Birds: they look like hawks and act like vultures, but they are actually falcons. Answer: What is the crested ...

Traversing Florida in 1831 in search of specimens for “The Birds of America,” John James Audubon came across an osprey-sized bird he had never seen before, the “Caracara Eagle,” as he called it—a ...

They look like some type of medieval war eagle, or a small condor that's just had a complete makeover. Florida's flat-footed falcon, the northern crested caracara (Caracara cheriway), is one of the ...

After a long drive up into the northern Ontario wilderness and several long days checking the trees around the community of Foleyet, Chris Blomme and his fellow birdwatchers were just about to head ...

A northern crested Caracara mugs for the camera. Photo: Ann Gillis / Bird Photographer of the Year You’d be forgiven for looking twice at this image just to figure out what’s going on. In the shot, a ...