Taxonomic status:

Species status: subspecies group (sometimes a species)

This taxon is a subspecies of Caracara plancus

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Other related concepts

• Caracara [plancus x cheriway] (hybrid)

Other synonyms

See also the taxonomic synonyms table.

Azerbaijani: cənub karakarası
Bulgarian: Каракара
Catalan: Caracarà, Caracarà crestat meridional
Czech: karančo jižní
Chuvash: каракара
Danish: Caracara, Sydlig Caracara
German: Karakara, Schopfkarakara, Schopfkarakara (plancus)
English: Common Caracara, Crested Caracara, Crested Caracara (Southern), Southern Caracara, Southern Crested Caracara, Southern Crested-Caracara
English, HBW: Southern Caracara
English (IOC): Crested Caracara (Southern), Southern Crested Caracara
English (United States): Crested Caracara (Southern), Southern Caracara
Esperanto: Suda karakaro
Spanish: Caracara Carancho, Caracara Carancho (sureño), Caracara Crestado, Caracara quebrantahuesos, Carancho, Carancho meridional, Quebrantahuesos, Traro
Spanish (Argentine): Carancho, Carancho (plancus)
Spanish (Bolivia): Carancho
Spanish (Chile): Traro, Traro (plancus)
Spanish (Costa Rica): Caracara Cargahuesos, Caracara Cargahuesos (plancus)
Spanish (Cuba): Caraira
Spanish (Ecuador): Caracara Crestado (plancus)
Spanish (Spain): Caracara carancho (sureño), Carancho Meridional
Spanish (HBW): Southern Caracara
Spanish (Honduras): Quebrantahuesos
Spanish (Mexico): caracara quebrantahuesos, Caracara Quebrantahuesos (plancus)
Spanish (Nicaragua): Caracara Crestado
Spanish (Panama): Caracara Crestada (plancus)
Spanish (Peru): Caracara Carancho, Caracara Crestado (plancus)
Spanish (Paraguay): Carancho, Carancho (plancus)
Spanish (Uruguay): Carancho, Carancho (Subesp. plancus)
Spanish (Venezuela): Caricare Encrestado (plancus)
Estonian: tuttkarakaara
Finnish: eteläntöyhtökarakara
French: Caracara huppé, Caracara huppé [plancus]
Irish: Caracara deisceartach
Guarani: Kara kara
Croatian: krunata karakara
Hungarian: bóbitás karakara
Icelandic: Gammfálki (plancus), Kambfálki
Italian: Caracara meridionale
Japanese (romaji): karakara, minamikarakara
Japanese: カラカラ, ミナミカラカラ, ミナミカラカラ（plancus）
Kazakh: айдарлы каракара, кәдімгі каракара
Kirghiz: кадимки тарпчыл ителги
Scientific: Caracara plancus, Caracara plancus [plancus], Caracara plancus plancus, Falco brasiliensis, Falco plancus, Falco Tharus, Polyborus planchus planchus, Polyborus plancus, Polyborus plancus plancus
Lithuanian: Kuoduotoji karakara
Latvian: cekulainā karakara, Dienvidu karakara
Dutch: Kuifcaracara, Zuidelijke Kuifcaracara
Norwegian Nynorsk: Gribbkarakara
Norwegian: Gribbkarakara
Polish: karakara czarnobrzucha
Portuguese: Caracara, caracará, caracarai, carancho, carcará, chimango, gavião-caracará, gavião-de-queimada
Portuguese (Brazil): Caracará, caracarai, carancho, carcara, carcará, carcará (plancus), chimango, gavião-caracará, gavião-de-queimada
Portuguese (Portugal): Caracará, caracara-meridional
Russian: Каракара обыкновенная, Обыкновенная каракара, Равнинная каракара, Равнинная каракара (plancus)
Slovak: Karakara pásikavá, karakara pásikavá (skup.)
Serbian: Ćubasta karakara (južna), Južna karakara
Swedish: Sydlig tofscaracara, sydlig tofskarakara, Tofscaracara, tofskarakara (plancus)
Turkish: Güneyli karakara, Tepeli Karakara (plancus)
Ukrainian: Каракара аргентинська
Chinese: 风头巨隼
Chinese (Traditional): 南美鳳頭卡拉鷹