My wife, Kathy, and I were driving the backroads around Chappell Hill looking at blankets of bluebonnets when a raptor caught our eye. The bird with an eaglelike beak was tearing at the flesh of a ...

HIGHBRIDGE − Jena Lindquist did evening chores May 28 on the 600-acre farm she and her husband, Adam Lindquist, own and work in Highbridge in Ashland County. She fed and watered chickens and bottle ...

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 ...

You’ve probably seen the regal eagle and the bobbing robin, but few have seen the crested caracara. This large bird is one of 50 listed species that are protected in Florida because of limited ...

If I were to make a list of the top 10 North American birds least likely to show up in Maine, a crested caracara would be on that list. Although it is a member of the falcon family, it has more in ...

Before the glaciers began to melt back into the sea, the Florida peninsula grew a great savanna grassland that stretched through Texas and buoyed a striking blue-beaked raptor with a chest of stripes ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This crested caracara, usually not found north of the southern United States, has drawn birdwatchers to the small northern Ontario ...

Archaeologists trek into the desert to uncover and preserve ancient pictographs at Hueco Tanks, revealing stories etched in rock long ago. Explore the diverse outdoor experiences at Cedar Hill State ...

A southern crested caracara feeds at a giant otter latrine in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands — a behavior documented in a new study published in Ecosphere that shows how otter latrines can attract ...

HALIFAX – A wayward visitor thousands of kilometres from home has the Nova Scotia birding community all aflutter. A crested caracara – the official bird of Mexico – was spotted Saturday feasting on a ...