Caracara [plancus or lutosa] (Crested or Guadalupe Caracara)

Crested or Guadalupe Caracara

Caracara [plancus or lutosa] (= Caracara plancus) (Miller, JF 1777)

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Classification

Order:
  Falconiformes
Family:
  Falconidae
Genus:
   Caracara
Scientific:
  Caracara plancus

Original description

Citation:
(Miller, JF 1777)

Reference:
Icon. Animalium pt3 pl.17

Protonym:
Falco Plancus

Type locality:
Tierra del Fuego.

Link:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/196473#page/47/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
8DBBABCE57E6D427

Avibase ID:
avibase-8DBBABCE

Short link:
https://avibase.ca/8DBBABCE

Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 554146

Geographic range:

Caracara lutosa: formerly Guadalupe Island (Mexico); extinct, last reported 1900
Caracara plancus [plancus]: northern Chile and central Peru eastward to the mouth of the Amazon River, southward to Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands; intergrades with nominate cheriway along the Amazon
Caracara plancus [cheriway]: southern USA (Arizona to Texas; Florida) and Mexico (including the Tres Marías Islands) southward to Panama, and northern South America southward to northwestern Peru, northern Colombia eastward to Trinidad, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, intergrading with plancus along the Amazon; also Cuba including Isla de la Juventud (Isle of Pines; south of western Cuba)

Source: Clements checklist

English:
Crested or Guadalupe Caracara
French:
Caracara huppé ou C. de Guadalupe

Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

American Ornithologists' Union 5th edition (incl. 34th suppl.): Crested Caracara ( Polyborus plancus) [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 6th edition (1983): Crested Caracara ( Polyborus plancus) [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 6th edition (incl. 35th suppl.): Crested Caracara ( Polyborus plancus) [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 6th edition (incl. 36th suppl.): Crested Caracara ( Polyborus plancus) [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 6th edition (incl. 37th suppl.): Crested Caracara ( Polyborus plancus) [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 6th edition (incl. 38th suppl.): Crested Caracara ( Polyborus plancus) [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 6th edition (incl. 39th suppl.): Crested Caracara ( Caracara plancus) [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 6th edition (incl. 40th suppl.): Crested Caracara ( Caracara plancus) [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 6th edition (incl. 41st suppl.): Crested Caracara ( Caracara plancus) [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 7th edition (1998): Crested Caracara ( Caracara plancus) [version 1]
Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Crested or Guadalupe Caracara ( Caracara [plancus, cheriway or lutosa])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Crested or Guadalupe Caracara ( Caracara [plancus, cheriway or lutosa])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): Crested or Guadalupe Caracara ( Caracara [plancus or lutosa])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013): Crested or Guadalupe Caracara ( Caracara [plancus or lutosa])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014): Southern, Crested or Guadalupe Caracara ( Caracara [plancus, cheriway or lutosa])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015): Southern, Crested or Guadalupe Caracara ( Caracara [plancus, cheriway or lutosa])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): Southern, Crested or Guadalupe Caracara ( Caracara [plancus, cheriway or lutosa])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): Southern, Crested or Guadalupe Caracara ( Caracara [plancus, cheriway or lutosa])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): Southern, Crested or Guadalupe Caracara ( Caracara [plancus, cheriway or lutosa])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Southern, Crested or Guadalupe Caracara ( Caracara [plancus, cheriway or lutosa])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Southern, Crested or Guadalupe Caracara ( Caracara [plancus, cheriway or lutosa])
Morony, Bock and Farrand: Crested Caracara ( Polyborus plancus) [version 1]
Peters' Check-list of the Birds: Polyborus plancus [version 1]
Peters' Check-list of the Birds (2nd edition): Polyborus plancus [version 1]

Taxonomic status:

Species status: species group (sometimes a species)

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Other synonyms

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Bulgarian: Каракара
Catalan: Caracarà crestat meridional
Czech: Karanco jižní
Danish: Guadalupecaracara
German: Schopfkarakara
English: Crested Caracara, Crested or Guadalupe Caracara, Southern, Crested or Guadalupe Caracara
Esperanto: Suda karakaro
Spanish: Caracara Carancho, caracara quebrantahuesos, Caraira, Carancho
Spanish (Argentine): Carancho
Spanish (Bolivia): Carancho
Spanish (Chile): Traro
Spanish (Costa Rica): Caracara Cargahuesos
Spanish (Cuba): Caraira
Spanish (Honduras): Quebrantahuesos
Spanish (Mexico): caracara quebrantahuesos
Spanish (Peru): Caracara Carancho
Spanish (Paraguay): Carancho
Spanish (Uruguay): Carancho
Estonian: guadalupe'i karakaara
Finnish: Guadalupenkarakara
French: Caracara huppé, Caracara huppé ou C. de Guadalupe, Caracara huppé, C. du Nord ou C. de Guadalupe
Irish: Caracara deisceartach
Guarani: Kara kara
Hungarian: bóbitás karakara
Italian: Caracara di Guadalupe
Japanese (romaji): karakara
Japanese: カラカラ
Scientific: Caracara [plancus or lutosa], Caracara [plancus, cheriway or lutosa], Caracara plancus, Caracara plancus plancus, Falco plancus, Polyborus plancus
Lithuanian: Kuoduotoji karakara
Latvian: Dienvidu karakara
Dutch: Kuifcaracara
Norwegian: Gribbkarakara
Polish: karakara meksykanska, karakara meksykańska
Portuguese: caracará
Portuguese (Brazil): caracará
Russian: Каракара обыкновенная
Slovak: Karakara pásikavá
Swedish: Tofscaracara
Ukrainian: Каракара аргентинська
Chinese: 风头巨隼
Chinese (Traditional): 南美鳳頭卡拉鷹