Crested Caracaras
Caracara
Caracara is a genus in the Family Falconidae and the Subfamily of Polyborinae. This genus consists of two extant species, the Northern and Southern Crested Caracaras, and one extinct species, the Guadalupe Caracara. The only visible difference between the two living species is that the southern species possesses more barred plumage than the northern species. The minor physical differences between these species resulted in their originally being classified as a single species.
5 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 1 known species
Crested Caracara
speciesCaracara plancus
Guadalupe Caracara
speciesCaracara lutosa
Bahama Caracara
speciesCaracara creightoni
Puerto Rican Caracara
speciesCaracara latebrosus
Jamaican Caracara
speciesCaracara tellustris
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 4712.