Poster 19×27 inches – Recycled Algae paper, beige 250 gr. Color pencil, each poster comes with an information flyer about distribution and diet + stickers.
WHY BUY?
Caracara is a Costa Rica based entrepreneurship that promotes conservation of Neotropical birds through art.
Caracara create art prints to introduce and promote conservation of neotropic birds. Their products aim to achieve accurate scientific portrayals of the species displayed. Their brand is inspired by the Red-throated Caracara (Ibycter americanus). Previously numerous in lowland forests of the Caribbean and Pacific slopes of the Costa Rica, it has seen its populations dramatically reduced in recent decades.
Caracara allocates part of its profits to support research projects to promote learning more about the species and thus develop strategies for its conservation. If you want to be part of these efforts, your purchase will be very welcome.
The Ibycter Project
This raptor, related to the falcons, is found from southern Mexico to southern Brazil and is usually found in forested habitats. It has a very interesting diet, feeding heavily on the larvae of wasps which it obtains by attacking the nests until the wasps abandon it. In the grand scheme of things though, very little is known about this unique raptor’s natural history. Although the Red-throated Caracara (Ibycter americanus) has a rather larger range, its population in Central America has plummeted over the last decades, making it very hard to find at present.
The decline is hard to account for since it has disappeared even from areas where the forest has remained intact. In Costa Rica there are recent sightings from the Osa Peninsula in the far south and in the northern region and it is precisely here where our project began in 2013, monitoring a group of Red-throated Caracaras living in the remnant forest patches of a cattle farm near Monterrey, San Carlos. During two seasons (2013, 2018) we were able to identify the nest site – the first ever recorded in Costa Rica – and we were able to connect invaluable data about their behavior and social cooperation using cameras to record photographs, video and audio. We were also able to document the fledglings from both nests.
During several visits in May 2020, the birds were spotted again visiting the nest site and coming in and out of the actual nest, but after two weeks of observations they stopped visiting the site. Their goal through Ibycter Project is to continue generating data on all aspects of this species’ natural history throughout the year to better understand its needs and why it is disappearing. This information is critical to allow them to put in place effective conservation actions.
Caracara Costa Rica is supporting the project with a donation for every purchase that we have. But there’s still much to do and much to learn about these amazing birds, it is for this reason we are seeking cooperation through donations to support our ongoing field work in Costa Rica. They have put together an amazing team of capable and hard-working volunteers, but we need your help to move on to the next phase of our project.
* the dimensions are 19”x27” (inches)