Caracaras

“Polyborus auduboni. Common Caracara. General color blackish, the throat, neck all around, and more or less of fore back and breast whitish, spotted and chiefly barred with blackish; upper and under tail-coverts and most of the tail white, the latter very numerously barred with blackish, of which color is the broad terminal zone; the shafts white along the white portion of each feather. Basal portion of primaries likewise barred with whitish. Bill variously pale colored; cere carmine; iris brown; feet yellow; claws black; soft parts drying to a dingy indefinable color.” Elliot Coues, 1884

Keywords

birds, birds of prey, ornithology, raptors, North American birds, carnivorous birds, falcons, Polyborus auduboni, Common Caracara

Galleries

Birds: C

Source

Elliot Coues Key to North American Birds (Boston, MA: Estes and Lauriat, 1884)

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