Yellow-headed caracara

Yellow-headed caracara
Adult at Serra da Canastra National Park, Brazil
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Falconiformes
Family: Falconidae
Genus: Milvago
Species:
M. chimachima
Binomial name
Milvago chimachima
(Vieillot, 1816)
Synonyms
  • Daptrius chimachima[3]
  • Polyborus chimachima (Vieillot, 1816)
  • Falco readei (Brodkorb, 1959)
  • Milvago readei (Brodkorb, 1959)

The yellow-headed caracara (Daptrius chimachima) is new-world bird of prey in the family Falconidae, of the Falconiformes order (true falcons, caracaras and their kin).[4] It is found as far north as Nicaragua, south to Costa Rica and Panamá, every mainland South American country (except Chile), and on the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, and Trinidad and Tobago.[5][6][7]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2020). "Yellow-headed Caracara Milvago chimachima". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T22696261A163573161. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22696261A163573161.en. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
  2. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved February 13, 2023.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Clements2022 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Gill, F.; Donsker, D.; Rasmussen, P., eds. (January 2023). "Seriemas, falcons". IOC World Bird List. v 13.1. Retrieved February 11, 2023.
  5. ^ McCrary, J.K.; Young, D.P. Jr. (2008). "New and noteworthy observations of raptors in southward migration in Nicaragua". Ornitología Neotropical. 19 (4): 573–580.
  6. ^ Check-list of North American Birds (7th ed.). Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union. 1998.
  7. ^ Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, E. Bonaccorso, S. Claramunt, A. Jaramillo, D. F. Lane, J. F. Pacheco, M. B. Robbins, F. G. Stiles, and K. J. Zimmer. 30 January 2023. Species Lists of Birds for South American Countries and Territories. https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCCountryLists.htm retrieved January 30, 2023