Before the glaciers began to melt back into the sea, the Florida peninsula grew a great savanna grassland that stretched through Texas and buoyed a striking blue-beaked raptor with a chest of stripes ...

They look like some type of medieval war eagle, or a small condor that's just had a complete makeover. Florida's flat-footed falcon, the northern crested caracara (Caracara cheriway), is one of the ...

This would be an outstanding clue in a future Jeopardy episode under the category of Birds: they look like hawks and act like vultures, but they are actually falcons. Answer: What is the crested ...

A hunt for invasive feral hogs on New Year’s Day turned into a rescue of a feathered Florida native that looks like a Dr. Seuss creation, or a faraway exotic species or an escaped zoo animal with an ...

My wife, Kathy, and I were driving the backroads around Chappell Hill looking at blankets of bluebonnets when a raptor caught our eye. The bird with an eaglelike beak was tearing at the flesh of a ...

Talk about making things right. A bird got a second chance at life when it was rescued from a tree in East Naples earlier this month. According to a Wednesday Facebook post from the Conservancy of ...

A Crested Caracara — a falcon with long legs and distinctive colors that’s native to South and Central America — made a rare visit to coastal South Carolina’s Lowcountry, prompting serious birders ...