Birds of Ecuador

    FALCONIFORMES: Falconidae (Caracaras, Falcons)  
Genus: Ibycter (1 species, 1 worldwide)


Red-throated Caracara
Red-throated Caracara (Ibycter americanus)
Villa Carmen, Pilcopata,  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

A very large and very loud fruit-eating caracara found in lowland forest canopies.


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