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Carcará
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| Photo Information |
Copyright: Fabiano Chede (fchede)
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| Genre: Animals |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2007-06-06 |
| Categories: Birds |
| Exposure: f/4, 1/400 seconds |
| More Photo Info: [view] |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2007-06-29 14:13 |
| Viewed: 640 |
| Points: 4 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
This is my second Crested Caracara (Polyborus plancus) or Carcará, Carrancho in Brazil. This wonderful bird of prey I captured looking for food just after a tractor plowed the land for the next seeding. This is the most terrestrial bird in the falcon group.
Something about the bird:
The Crested Caracaras’ preferred habitat is open. These birds reside in South America, Central America and the southwestern United States and Florida.
Caracaras hunt live food on the ground or take food from other birds.The caracara is the most terrestrial bird in the falcon group. It spends a great deal of time on the ground. Unlike other members of the falcon family that do not construct nests, the caracara builds a stick nest.The Crested Caracara usually feeds on carrion, but they will take advantage of any food opportunity by eating small mammals, amphibians, reptiles, turtles, fish, crab, eggs, insects, worms, and nestling birds. |
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