Saturday, 13 June 2020

Red-throated caracara



The red-throated caracara (Ibycter americanus) is found from southern Mexico to central Peru and southern Brazil.

It is mostly black, but with glossy green and blue feathers. It has white streaks on the sides of its head and white underparts. The legs are orange-red, the bill yellow, the skin on the face red and the eyes red to brown.

It feeds mainly on wasp grubs, which it gathers by plunging its head into the nest it has torn open.


© John Welford

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