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Why it s time to appreciate the caracara, the extremely weird falcon that acts like a crow

In his new book, Jonathan Meiburg argues that the striated caracara has an unique mind, and is :an incredible example of the flexibility of the world of birds to produce different kinds of minds and intelligences.

Chasing Down Birds of Prey With Ornithologist and Musician Jonathan Meiburg

Author Jonathan Meiburg crouches in the scrubby South Texas brush at Martin Refuge. Bryan C. Parker Walking beneath the hazy evening sun and mesquite trees’ arching branches, Jonathan Meiburg stops along a dusty path and points up toward his left. There, a northern crested caracara ascends into the air with a powerful whoosh, propelling its black and white body forward with a series of mighty flaps before gliding gracefully to another perch farther down the trail. Meiburg turns back toward the rest of us his partner, Jenna Moore; our guide, Patty Raney; and me with what almost looks like a smile. His mouth slightly agape, Meiburg’s joy mixes with a serious sense of awe and fascination. 

Musician And Ornithologist Jonathan Meiburg Documents His Fascination For Caracaras In New Book

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.

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