Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus)

Family: Falconidae
Subfamily: Falconinae

Caracara plancus;
Crested Caracara;
Caracará.

Falco plancus MILLER 1777

Subspecies: nominate.
Range of Subspecies: S of the Amazon, in much of S America. See Hellmayr and Conover 1949, Blake 1977.

The species was previously placed in the genus Polyborus. The photo shows an adult bird.