Crested Caracara, Michipicoten, Ontario! December 1, 2016; Lucio Fazio

This MEGA rarity, the CRESTED Caracara showed up in Michipicoten near Wawa, Ontario!!.

With its long neck , long tail & long legs, this "Raptor" has white wing tips and white head & tail. Black capped, Red bare facial skin and white necked, this inhabitant of brushlands from southern Texas, Mexico , to South America.

What is the ORIGIN of this accidental individual bird, in Northern Ontario?

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From: PeregrineFalcon1918

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Mating Dance of the Great-tailed Grackle

A big, brash blackbird, the male Great-tailed Grackle shimmers in iridescent black and purple, and trails a tail that will make you look twice. The rich brown females are about half the male’s size. Flocks of these long-legged, social birds strut and hop on suburban lawns, golf courses, fields, and marshes in Texas, the Southwest, and southern Great Plains.

In courtship and territorial display, male perches in the open, fluffs out feathers, partly spreads wings and tail, rapidly...

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From: Natalia Goncharova

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