Yellow-headed Caracara Milvago chimachima

Yellow-headed Caracara
Yellow-headed Caracara
The Yellow-headed Caracara is native to Central and South America.
Yellow-headed Caracara
Yellow-headed Caracara
Yellow-headed Caracara
Known for eating ticks and lice from livestock, it also eats small rodents, chicks, reptiles/amphibians, other insects, carrion and, surprisingly, some fruit and vegetables, especially oil palm.
Yellow-headed Caracara
Yellow-headed Caracara
Yellow-headed Caracara
Adults have creamy yellow heads and fronts.
Yellow-headed Caracara
Yellow-headed Caracara
Yellow-headed Caracara
Juveniles have mottled brown heads and fronts.