Carunculated caracara
| Carunculated caracara | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Falconiformes |
| Family: | Falconidae |
| Genus: | Phalcoboenus |
| Species: | P. carunculatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Phalcoboenus carunculatus Des Murs, 1853
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The carunculated caracara (Phalcoboenus carunculatus) is a species of bird of prey in the family Falconidae. It is found in páramo in the Andes of Ecuador and Colombia. It is generally uncommon to fairly common.
Diet[]
A highly opportunistic species often seen walking on the ground, it will feed on both carrion and virtually any small animal it can catch.
Description[]
It resembles the closely related mountain caracara, but unlike that species its chest and upper belly is black with dense white streaks. Juveniles are far less distinctive than the orange-faced pied adults, being overall brown with dull pinkish-grey facial skin.
Antisana NP, Ecuador
At Antisana Ecological Reserve, Ecuador
References[]
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Phalcoboenus carunculatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22696238A93550967. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22696238A93550967.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
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- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Phalcoboenus
- Birds of the Colombian Andes
- Birds of the Ecuadorian Andes
- Páramo fauna
- Birds described in 1853
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