I am unable to identify this bird. It landed on a branch maybe eight meters up, and stayed there as I approached. I was sure it would fly away, but it never did, and paid apparently no attention to the biped and several quadrupeds beneath.
Update: Carancho (Caracara plancus), a falcon. Thanks Syd!
More falcon. When I said my wife wanted to know su edad, she said 26. Well, su edad can mean his/her/its age or your age (formal). I would not address someone less than half my age formally—no, the bird’s age, I clarified. She laughed heartily.
Their estimate is two months.
So, language blunders aside, that’s wild. Big bird for two months old!
A girl with a falcon has been at our local park lately. The bird was rescued when both parents were killed. It didn’t know how to fly. It’s a male, smaller than the females. I still don’t know what type it is. The names she gives me don’t correspond to anything I find in the bird book. She puts a cap over its head when she drives back to Montevideo. I asked if it always made noise – It doesn’t at night 😉
