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Crested caracara perched on a wooden fence post in open Florida ranch country, black cap and crest visible, orange-red bare face, hooked bill
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Crested Caracara — The Mexican Eagle You'll See on a Florida Fence Post, and Why Birders Drive 3 Hours for It

The crested caracara is a tropical falcon that lives nowhere else east of the Rio Grande except a 500-to-1,000-bird isolate population in central Florida's cattle prairies. Mexico put it on the flag. Florida birders drive three hours to find one on a fence post.
Adult Florida sandhill crane with grey body and red crown standing in open pasture
Wildlife

Florida Sandhill Crane — The Year-Round Resident That's Not the Whooping Crane You Drove Out to See

Florida has its own four-foot, gar-oo-ing, year-round sandhill crane — about 5,000 of them on the prairies, pastures, and golf courses of the central peninsula. Joined every winter by 25,000 migratory cousins. Here's where to find them, how to tell them from a whooper, and what their courtship dance looks like.