Crested caracara Caracara cheriway
Identification Tips:
Length: 21 inches Wingspan: 48 inches
Sexes similar
Medium-sized, broad-winged, long-tailed hawk
Thick, gray hooked beak, with reddish cere and bare facial skin around eye ...
CRESTED CARACARA FACTS
Description
The Crested Caracara is a large black-brown bird with black crown and crest. The throat and sides of the neck are pale buff color and face has bare red skin.
The Crested Caracara (Caracara cheriway) is a member of the falcon family despite its quite non falcon-like behavior and appearance. It occurs in Florida, Texas and Arizona and southward into the tropical areas of Central and South America.
Southern Caracara (Caracara plancus)
aka Crested Caracara, Southern Crested-Caracara (Polyborus plancus) but see HBW, Volume 2, Pages 219-220 and Northern Caracara (Caracara cheriway) ...
Crested Caracara
Polyborus plancus
Photo from the North American Breeding Bird Survey
Last updated 3/2/96 The Crested Caracara's range just make it north to the UTC.
Crested Caracara: Caracara cheriway
Appearance:
About the size of an osprey, this boldly patterned raptor has a crest, naked face, heavy bill and longish neck and legs.
Crested caracara (Caracara cheriway ), is a medium-sized falcon with a long tail and broad wings. It is about 22 inches long with a 4 foot wingspan. The sexes are similar. The bird is mostly black with a black cap that is crested at the end.
Crested Caracara
Polyborus plancus plancus
Local Name: Carancho
Breeding Range: Falklands & South America
Length: 60cm.
Falklands Population: ~500 breeding pairs
World Population: unknown ...
Crested Caracara Caracara plancus. Accidental.
American Kestrel Falco sparverius. Breeder. Common in winter, common to fairly common in spring and fall, and rare in summer in inland regions.
The Crested Caracara (Caracara cheriway), also known as the Northern Caracara, is a bird of prey in the family Falconidae. It was formerly considered conspecific with the Southern Caracara (C. plancus) and the extinct Guadalupe Caracara (C. lutosus).
The threatened Crested Caracara is found year round in native prairies north and west of Lake Okeechobee.
name area season diet/native food plants
American Kestrel
** THREATENED ** ...
In a fierce wind at the Ushuia dump we had Chimango Caracara, Crested Caracara, White-throated Caracara, Kelp Gull,Dolphin Gull, Chilean Skua, Rufous-backed Negrito (This bird identified by Michele Sallaberry.
Caracara, Crestedaka Northern Crested Caracara Caracara cheriway Found: The Americas
Photographed by: 1) Didden 2) Jim Louk 3) Sandy Cole at Flamingo Gardens in Florida
4) Alan D Wilson at Ramirez Ranch, Near Roma, Texas 5) Evgeniy Meyke ...
THE CARACARA EAGLE.
[Crested Caracara.]
POLYBORUS BRAZILIENSIS, Gm.
[Polyborus plancus.] ...
Southern Caracara Caracara plancus
Described by: Miller, J. F. (1777)
Alternate common name(s): Southern Crested Caracara
Old scientific name(s): Polyborus plancus ...
 See also: Caracara, Falcon, Vulture, Eagle, Hawk
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