#1455 · 🐦 birds

Chimango Caracara

🇳🇱 Chimango ·Daptrius chimango

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © graciela_gplp · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Fernando Sessegolo · CC0
3. © Ariel Cabrera Foix · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © Cláudio Dias Timm · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
5. © Cláudio Dias Timm · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
6. © Raul Antonio Alvarez · CC BY 4.0
7. © Edwin Harvey · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
8. © Jorge Schlemmer · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The chimango caracara ( Milvago chimango ) is a species of bird of prey in the family Falconidae. It is found in Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay and south of Brazil. The chimango is found as far south as Tierra del Fuego and is a vagrant to the Falkland Islands also known as Islas Malvinas.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 18,835iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).