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This Crested Caracara (Caracara cheriway) skull does not look nearly punk enough for its owner’s species.

Crested Caracaras are birds of prey, in the same family as falcons, and regularly eat snakes, lizards, and young alligators. Luke Dempsey, author of one of my favorite books on birding, nicknamed this caracara the “red-faced greater mullet bird,” which pretty much sums up both the bird’s aesthetic and how ironically cool it must look when scoping out prey atop a cactus.

Photo credit: Kaitie Janecke Soltesz