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Yellow-headed Caracara (Young)

Milvago chimachima

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Description:

This bird was just too far to get a good picture, but the beak is white, the body is white to the shoulders, the wings are dark, has a yellow/orange mark from the beak to the nostrils passed the eyes to the back of the head.

Species ID Suggestions

Yellow-headed Caracara

Milvago chimachima

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Comments (8)
KarenSaxton
Thank you very much! The funny thing is that we came home(Southern Oregon) and the next month discovered the crested caracara living about 2 hours south of us just south of the Calif border! Didn't see a one in Costa Rica.... or Belize last year, either
KarenSaxton
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/8972482 My series from a couple years ago - and my mistake, I saw them on Rio Tarcoles, not Rio Negro
KarenSaxton
The adults have the yellow face..... but they really are spectacular birds
Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman
Thank you so much for the ID, Xiaoxuan. They change so much when they mature!! I specially like then young with that gorgeous yellow in the face and the very white plumage... : )
XXD17
This one is an adult: http://www.arkive.org/yellow-headed-caracara/milvago-chimachima/ The previous one is a juvenile: http://www.pbase.com/image/97386452 , http://www.redbubble.com/people/elr1227/works/7863017-juvenile-yellow-headed-caracara
XXD17
Yellow-headed caracara

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Paso Pacifico Survey
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Birds of Panama and Costa Rica
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National Geographic's Great Nature Project
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Life in Costa Rica
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PublishedAugust 29, 2013

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