| Caracara | |
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| Crested caracara (Caracara plancus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Falconiformes |
| Family: | Falconidae |
| Subfamily: | Polyborinae |
| Genus: | Caracara Merrem, 1826 |
| Type species | |
| Vultur plancus Miller, JF, 1777
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| Species | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Polyborus | |
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 crested caracara had in recent years been split into a northern species C. cheriway and a southern species C. plancus, but the South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society has voted to again merge the two, retaining C. plancus as the crested caracara.[1] The taxonomists of the International Ornithologists' Union have also merged them.[2]
- ^ "South American Classification Committee". Museum.lsu.edu. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
- ^ Gill, F.; Donsker, D.; Rasmussen, P. (December 2020). "IOC World Bird List (v 10.2) Proposed Splits/Lumps". Worldbirdnames.org. Retrieved 2 January 2021.