Caracara (genus)

Caracara
Crested caracara (Caracara plancus)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Falconiformes
Family: Falconidae
Subfamily: Polyborinae
Genus: Caracara
Merrem, 1826
Type species
Vultur plancus
Species

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Synonyms

Polyborus

This article is about the genus of birds. For the subfamily of birds, see Caracara (subfamily). For other uses, see Caracara (disambiguation).

Caracara is a genus in the family Falconidae and the subfamily Polyborinae. It contains one extant species, the crested caracara; and one recently extinct species, the Guadalupe caracara. The South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society has voted to again merge the two, retaining C. plancus as crested caracara. The taxonomists of the International Ornithologists' Union have also merged them.

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