First Nest Records of the Red-throated Caracara (Ibycter americanus) in Peru

The Red-throated Caracara (Ibycter americanus) is a social forest raptor that specializes in predation of paper wasp colonies (Ferguson-Lees and Christie 2001, McCann et al. 2013, Davis and McCann 2020). Although this species is widespread in lowlands and foothills in tropical rainforests and other forest types of Central and South America, several population declines and some local extirpations have been reported in the northern portion of the species’ range (Central America) since the mid-20th century (Bierregaard 1994, Davis and McCann 2020). This caracara’s breeding ecology is little known and descriptions have been published of only five nests, including one in Brazil (Whittaker 1996), three in French Guiana (Thiollay 1991, McCann et al. 2010), and one in Honduras (Bennett et al. 2014). Here we describe two nests found in the Junín department, in the eastern...