What is this bird ?

What is that thing walking around with those ravens ? Looks like a rooster, that's what I'm talking about.

Looks like a Raven with some kind of bird mange. Odd.

Moosetrot

Believe it may be the way the sunlight is hitting that particular raven?

Just lighting like scouts said

I think it is a raven

Its a raven with a head injury following concussion protocol, has to keep that little raven helmet on for another 2 weeks.

You are probably right. I think it could go either with sunlight or light feathers from the neck up?

Caracara? Birds of South and Central America, just reaching the southern United States.

I think it's the lighting , happened to Jake once.........


" Can you see the light !!!??? "

Yep sunlight. When I was a kid I wanted one as a pet. Anyone ever raise one?

Does yall have bald eagles there? with camera angle and bad focus it's kinda hard to estimate size, but that is exactly the posture they have.

It's a Mexican eagle (buzzard) called a Caracara. Watch out when you are calving they will peck the eyeballs out a newborn

Raven

I can't tell if people are serious or joking with some of these answers.

It's a raven with the sun only hitting from the neck up.

I was joking about the concussed raven.

I hope those stating raven are joking also.

I don't think it is a Caracara. A Caracara has yellowish-orange legs.

Moosetrot

Maybe it's a cross between a raven and this thing on the right side of the picture. That one with the cape is up in the middle of those other birds. Appears to be out of the sunlight.

That one on the right is a Caracara. I am not a bird expert, however.

Moosetrot

Crow

He's right, it's a caracara. They scavenge a lot of their food.

Keith

Yep, the one on the right is a caracara. It is maybe a young one as the legs appear to be white rather than yellow.
There is actually a light colored and a dark caracara in the area. I don't know if they are two different kinds or simply one color is a male and a female..

I agree they are scavengers but they are also deadly on baby lambs, goats and deer. I have had a couple of experiences with caracaras and they are not to be messed with.

I still don't know what the caped black thing is. Maybe it is the sun but it appears to be in the shade in all pics I have of it. It also appears to have a larger breast and body than the other ravens.

Think I will just call it "Stud Duck"

Caracara

Absolutely a Crested Caracara. They have a habit of hanging with vultures, crows, etc. They are, as stated, birds of the S.W. and parts of Tx and Florida. They occasionally wander widely though. There was one in the U.P. 2-3 years ago. Florida is the only place I have seen them. Neat birds. They were formally called "Audubon's Caracara".