CRESTED CARACARA: ICONIC BIRD OF SOUTH-CENTRAL FLORIDA’S DRY PRAIRIES

Crested Caracara

Looks like a hawk. Scavenges for carrion like a vulture. Is actually a falcon. Common in open grasslands, rangelands, and scrubby areas of South & Central America, a small population, about 1,000 individuals, lives in the similar dry prairies with scattered palm cabbage of south-central Florida. Most of which are within large private cattle ranches. […]

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