caracara

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  1. noun Any of several large, carrion-eating or predatory hawks of the subfamily Caracarinae, native to South and Central America and the southern United States.

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  • Meet three feathered ambassadors from the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey: Paige, a bald eagle, Cracker, a crested caracara, and Elvis, a kestrel.
  • The search for a temporary site has been beset by environmental concerns, including the discovery of a crested caracara, an endangered bird, nesting at a site north of Immokalee near the Hendry-Collier line.
  • This spring, the aquarium will finish Conservation Cove with the new Eagle Pass, a naturalistic outdoor habitat for the theater's birds of prey like Cowboy the crested caracara and Gus the white-tailed hawk.
  • More Corpus birds: Roseate spoonbill, egrets, herons, gulls, terns, osprey, peregrine falcon, crested caracara.
  • Featured attractions include the birds of prey shown by wildlife rehabilitator Doris Mager, who will bring owls, hawks and a caracara and fly them in the
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  1. Spanish and Portuguese caracará, both from Tupi caracara.

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  1. So called in imitation of their hoarse cry.
 

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