We drove the road to Canela, RS235, along a 10 kilometer stretch with major stops at kilometer 68 and 65 to do some afternoon birding on October 8, 2011. Lunchtime rains, which had kept us indoors at our hotel, the Hotel Veraneio Hampel, in São Francisco de Paula, Rio Grande do Sul, finally cleared. Brad photographed this Southern Caracara (Caracara plancus) in flight. The Southern Caracara can be separated from the similar Northern Caracara by its more extensive barring on the chest, brownish and often lightly mottled/barred scapulars (all blackish in Northern), and pale lower back with dark barring (uniform blackish in Northern). Temperatures were in the 80's on this partly cloudy to rainy day.