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Crested Caracara
Caracara plancus · Family Falconidae
Caracara plancus
Family Falconidae
- Order
- Falconiformes
- Family
- Falconidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,430,591
- Countries and territories with records
- 40
About this species
This species has 1,430,591 occurrence records from 40 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (35.2%), Argentina (17%), Brazil (14%), Costa Rica (7.4%) and Mexico (6.6%); together they account for 80.2% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.045% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Caracara plancus combines the genus name Caracara with the species epithet plancus. It is the only species of the genus Caracara in the Warbla app catalog.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 58 species of the family Falconidae. This species ranks 5th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Falco sparverius. Its record count is 3.8 times the family average (377,669). The family Falconidae belongs to the order Falconiformes, which has 58 species in the Warbla app catalog.