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Range (Southern Florida and Mexican)

Southern Florida and Mexican border of the United States south to the Amazon.

Nest, in a cabbage palmetto or on the tops of dense bushes. Eggs, two to three, varying from cream-buff to rufous, heavily marked with shades of reddish brown and chocolate, 2.35 × 1.85. Caracaras frequently associate with Vultures and feed on carrion, but they also capture their own food. This consists largely of frogs, lizards, and small snakes, which the birds find while walking about on the ground in search of them. Their flight is strong, rapid, and direct, and bears no resemblance to that of a Vulture's. 364. Pandion haliaëtus carolinensis (Gmel.). AMERICAN OS- PREY; FISH HAWK. Ad. 8.- Upper parts fuscous, the head and nape varied with white; tail with six to eight obscure bands, more distinct on the inner web; under parts white, breast sometimes slightly spotted with grayish brown. Ad. 2.-Similar, but the breast always spotted with grayish brown. L., 23-10; W., 18-25; T., 8.40.