Yellow-headed caracara
| Yellow-headed caracara | |
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| Adult at Serra da Canastra National Park, Brazil | |
CITES Appendix II
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Falconiformes |
| Family: | Falconidae |
| Genus: | Daptrius |
| Species: | D. chimachima
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| Binomial name | |
| Daptrius chimachima (Vieillot, 1816)
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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). It can be found in North America and South America, from Nicaragua to Uruguay.