A striated caracara investigates the puzzle box. Source: Oly Dempster, used with permission. At the southern tip of South America lives a quirky and curious bird of prey unlike any other. Striated ...

In early 1833, during the voyage of the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin found himself in a corner of the world he didn’t particularly care for, an archipelago near the southern tip of South America called ...

When Jonathan Meiburg came across a striated caracara, he was astonished by the bird of prey’s curious nature and uncanny gaze. Meiburg is an ornithologist, author and member of the band Shearwater.

A recent study in falcons highlights commonalities in ecology that underlie the evolution of innovative thinking in both corvids and cockatoos A pair of striated caracaras (Phalcoboenus australis) on ...

For Jonathan Meiburg, meeting striated caracaras in the Falkland Islands was something like love at first sight. It's not a surprise that he took so quickly to the birds — he's an ornithologist, and ...

Traversing Florida in 1831 in search of specimens for “The Birds of America,” John James Audubon came across an osprey-sized bird he had never seen before, the “Caracara Eagle,” as he called it—a ...

A team of researchers, led by Katie Harrington at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, has studied the puzzle-solving abilities of striated caracaras on the Falkland Islands. The habitat of ...

An unusual falcon species has been added to the growing list of animals that play. A recent study published in the newest issue of the Journal of Raptor Research explains that Striated Caracaras ...

Jonathan Meiburg, the frontman for Shearwater, moonlights as an ornithologist, and his interest in the natural world and our uneasy place in it turns up often in Shearwater’s music. The Austin and New ...

Listener Jonathan Meiburg traveled far to find caracaras and albatrosses. We like to take advantage of the fact that we are an oral medium, and use sounds to bring you snapshots of life. You send us ...