Caracaras - Northern Caracara, Yellow-Headed Caracara, Southern Caracara, Guadalupe Caracara, Striated Caracara (Paperback)

Chapters: Northern Caracara, Yellow-Headed Caracara, Southern Caracara, Guadalupe Caracara, Striated Caracara. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Polyborus cheriwayPolyborus plancus cheriwayCaracara plancus cheriwayPolyborus tharus 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. Unlike the Falco falcons in the same family, the caracaras are not fast-flying aerial hunters, but are rather sluggish and often scavengers. The Northern Caracara is a resident in Cuba, northern South America (south to northern Peru and northern Amazonian Brazil) and most of Central America and Mexico, just reaching the southernmost parts of the United States, including Florida, where it is resident but listed as threatened. There have been reports of the Crested Caracara as far north as San Francisco, California. South of the US border, it is generally common. This is a bird of open and semi-open country. The mottled breast and pinkish-purple facial skin and cere are typical of immatures At Brevard Zoo, FloridaThe Northern Caracara has a length of 4958 cm (1923 in), a wingspan of 120 cm (47 in), and weighs 1,0501,300 g (3746 oz). It is broad-winged and long-tailed. It also has long legs and frequently walks and runs on the ground. It is very cross-shaped in flight. The adult has a black body, wings, crest and crown. The neck, rump, and conspicuous wing patches are white, and the...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=59359