The caracara coursed vipers for me, and the hawk lifted his wings to the wind from the top of a pine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

Directly in front of me a caracara bird chases a screaming penguin who scurries into a little hole beneath the tussock, safe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margie Goldsmith: Traveling to the Falkland Islands: Sub-Antarctica] Reference

One of the more descriptive common names for the crested caracara, incidentally, is the quebrantahuesos, literally the bone-smasher!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Did you know? Mexico's vultures have very different eating habits.] Reference

Sometimes seen feeding alongside vultures at carcasses is the longer-necked and larger-headed crested caracara (Polyborus plancus), a hawk with distinctive markings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Did you know? Mexico's vultures have very different eating habits.] Reference

There seem to be, however, a few near endemics such as two geese (Chloephaga hybrida and C. rubiceps), blackish cinclodes (Cinclodes antarcticus), black throated finch (Melanodera melanodera) and striated caracara (Phalcoboenus australis).    From Wordnik.com.  [Magellanic subpolar forests] Reference

The caracara takes little notice, except by bobbing its head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

As a bonus, a regal crested caracara surveyed the scene from a fence post.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The largest caracara -- Polyborus Braziliensis -- ranges the grassy savannahs of La Plata.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

The flight of the caracara is heavy and slow, and it is generally an inactive, tame, and cowardly bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

Among the hedgerow and scrub thickets, crested caracara and other diurnal raptors, including Swainson's hawk and.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference

It will frequently wait, as does the caracara, at the mouth of a rabbit-hole, and seize on the animal when it comes out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

Mager will make presentations involving live birds of prey including an American kestrel, great-horned owl and a crested caracara.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Facts: News] Reference

Sometimes the caracara extended its scarlet blossoms from branch to branch, and gave the tree the appearance as though it had been hung with garlands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wanderings in South America] Reference

Featured attractions include the birds of prey shown by wildlife rehabilitator Doris Mager, who will bring owls, hawks and a caracara and fly them in the.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

This spring, the aquarium will finish Conservation Cove with the new Eagle Pass, a naturalistic outdoor habitat for the theater's birds of prey like Cowboy the crested caracara and Gus the white-tailed hawk.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The search for a temporary site has been beset by environmental concerns, including the discovery of a crested caracara, an endangered bird, nesting at a site north of Immokalee near the Hendry-Collier line.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

But, although death was everywhere apparent in the show, it was not a lugubrious place: Cries of birds -- whooping crane, crested caracara -- were piped in, and video images of actual birds appeared on a screen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference

Bird species include such rare ones as golden eagle (Aguila chrysaetos), peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), crested caracara (caracara plancus), osprey (Pandion haliaeutus), and burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia).    From Wordnik.com.  [Baja California desert] Reference

The caracara gives up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margie Goldsmith: Traveling to the Falkland Islands: Sub-Antarctica] Reference

I bought a winter jasmine and a caracara orange.    From Wordnik.com.  [hey now, hey now] Reference

Migrations - narrated by Stephen Fry - is a six-part series that focuses on 20 of the world's most spectacular animal journeys, from the well known (elephant, wildebeest to the largely unknown (striated caracara, anyone?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

The condor, gallinazo, turkey-buzzard, and caracara eagle (says.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America] Reference

More Corpus birds: Roseate spoonbill, egrets, herons, gulls, terns, osprey, peregrine falcon, crested caracara.    From Wordnik.com. Reference