Predictably, I cannot help but find the idea that condors, caracaras, turacos and hoatzins are all close kin of phorusrhacids highly appealing, but it does all seem very vague and sadly lacking in good character support. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)
He further suggested that falcons ‘probably represent a raptorial branch of this radiation’ (p. 144), a suggestion presumably based on the anatomy of caracaras. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)
Can see some similarity between seriemas and Polyborus - type caracaras ... ❋ Darren Naish (2006)
So, as appealing as it might be to imagine that condors, caracaras, turacos and hoatzins are all close kin of phorusrhacids, it really is all vague and sadly lacking in any sort of good character support. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)
(Soundbite of striated caracaras) Mr. MEIBURG: Three eggs, three eggs, three eggs. ❋ Unknown (2007)
(Soundbite of laughter) (Soundbite of striated caracaras) Mr. MEIBURG: It's exhilarating to be in the presence of such abundance, but it also kind of poignant to me. ❋ Unknown (2007)
(Soundbite of striated caracaras) Mr. MEIBURG: Here at the Steeple Jason colony, where the chicks and eggs of the albatrosses and penguins are an easy target, the caracaras is nest along the colony's edge among tops of a giant grass called tusset (ph) grass that can grow almost 10 feet high. ❋ Unknown (2007)
(Soundbite of striated caracaras) Mr. MEIBURG: Every time we found a nest, after climbing crumbling cliffs, dodging angry albatrosses and bashing through the nearly impenetrable thickets of tusset grass, it was an indescribable thrill. ❋ Unknown (2007)
A strange bird of prey called the striated caracaras. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The caracaras too, have such a tiny population, are literally clinging to life here at the edge of the continent. ❋ Unknown (2007)
(Soundbite of striated caracaras) Mr. MEIBURG: The sounds of these animals are the sounds of a time when the world belong to them. ❋ Unknown (2007)
(Soundbite of striated caracaras) BLOCK: Listener Jonathan Meiburg traveled from Austin, Texas to the Falklands to gather these sounds. ❋ Unknown (2007)
(Soundbite of striated caracaras) Mr. MEIBURG: These are birds related to falcons - look and act kind of like a combination of a hawk and a crow - curious, resourceful and powerful. ❋ Unknown (2007)
In a silence broken only by the pure and expressive cries of distant caracaras, we moved from tree to tree making our collections. ❋ Wade Davis (1996)
Abandoning their old fields, they relocated to another clearing where they dwelt within barricaded walls, protected by harpy eagles and caracaras tethered as guard animals at the approaches to the settlement. ❋ Wade Davis (1996)
