Crested caracara (Martin Zwick/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
When Jonathan Meiburg came across a striated caracara, he was astonished by the bird of prey’s curious nature and uncanny gaze.
“I had never seen anything like them,” he recalls. “They look something like a combination of a crow and a hawk. They just don’t act the way you think of a bird of prey acting, or any wild animal for that matter. They come right up to you.”
After college, Meiburg won a fellowship and went on to document community life across the Earth. He followed in the footsteps of Charles Darwin, who also studied striated caracaras nearly 200 years ago in the Falkland Islands.