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152 Crested caracara in Encontro das Águas State Park Photo by Giles Laurent🦅

Photo: Giles Laurent · CC BY-SA 4.0

SpeciesFalconiformesFalconidae
Birds

🦅Crested Caracara

Caracara plancus (J.F.Miller, 1777)

El carancho (Caracara plancus),​ también conocido como traro,​​​ y guarro es una especie de ave falconiforme de la familia Falconidae.​ Habita el centro y sur de América del Sur.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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7
Photos
2
Measurements
10
vs you
≈ 1/58th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2023.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
1.08 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
38 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Crested Caracara

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
1.08 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 1.35 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.21 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.38 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.04 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.08 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
38 years
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Omnivore
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Shrubland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
1.1 Laverage
Details ↓

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Crested Caracara yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderFalconiformes
  5. ›familyFalconidae
  6. ›genusCaracara
  7. ›speciesCaracara plancus
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderFalconiformes
  3. familyFalconidae
  4. genusCaracara
All 12 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderFalconiformes
  11. familyFalconidae
  12. genusCaracara
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In other languages
carancho meridional (es), cekulainā karakara (lv), gribbkarakara (nb), kuifcaracara (nl), karakara czubata (pl), tofskarakara (sv) … and 24 more languages
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152 Crested caracara in Encontro das Águas State Park Photo by Giles LaurentSchopfkarakara
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