Yellow-headed Caracara

Milvago chimachima - Caracara à tête jaune

Systematics
  • Order 
    :

    Falconiformes

  • Family
    :

    Falconidés

  • Genus
    :

    Milvago

  • Species
    :

    chimachima

Descriptor

Vieillot, 1816

Biometrics
  • Size
    : 45 cm
  • Wingspan
    : 74 à 95 cm.
  • Weight
    : 280 à 364 g
Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Caracara à tête jaune
adult
Caracara à tête jaune
adult

Yellow-headed Caracara (Milvago chimachima) is a species of bird in the Falconidae family.

Subspecific information 2 subspecies

  • Milvago chimachima chimachima (Amazon south to n Argentina)
  • Milvago chimachima cordata (s Costa Rica through South America north of the Amazon)

Foreign names

  • Caracara à tête jaune,
  • Caracara chimachima,
  • carrapateiro,
  • Gelbkopfkarakara,
  • pásztorkarakara,
  • Geelkopcaracara,
  • Caracara testagialla,
  • gulhuvad karakara,
  • Kremkarakara,
  • karakara čimačima,
  • čimango žlutavý,
  • Lys Caracara,
  • vaaleakarakara,
  • caracarà de cap groguenc,
  • karakara jasnogłowa,
  • Химахима,
  • キバラカラカラ,
  • 黄头叫隼,
  • 黃頭叫鷹,

Voice song and cries

Habitat

Caracara à tête jaune
adult plum. breeding

Savanna : Dry, Moist ; Shrubland : Subtropical/Tropical Dry, Subtropical/Tropical Moist ; Grassland : Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Pastureland, Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest

Geographic range

Threats - protection

IUCN conservation status
Extinct
Threatened
Least
concern
Extinc
in the Wild
Near
threatened
Not
evaluated
EX EW CR EN VU NT LC NE

Other sources of interest

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