OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 49424

caracara

/ˈkæ.ɹəˌkɑ.ɹə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
caracará • carancho
Any of several South American and Central American birds of prey in the subfamily Caracarinae.
A few still live on the remote coasts of Tierra del Fuego, and though warrahs and gauchos vanished from the Falklands soon after Darwin's visit, striated caracaras still cling to l…
The caracara's flight is direct and rapid, not at all like that of the vulture, which sails and soars in spirals.
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