Crested Caracara - Caracara plancus - Caracara cheriway - Southern Caracara

(Photo by Maria Bedacht, taken in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil in Nov. 2004)
Described by J.F. Miller in 1777. (See Birds in Brazil, H. Sick - pg 185 and Birds of North America, Alsop, 2002, pg 239)


