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Any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South and Central America
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caracara
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Caracara is a genus of birds of prey in the family Falconidae found throughout a large part of the Americas . They are part of a group collectively referred to as caracaras . The modern species in the genus Caracara were previously considered conspecific ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caracara \Ca`ra*ca"ra\ (k[aum]`r[.a]k[aum]"r[.a]), n. (Zo["o]l.) A south American bird of several species and genera, resembling both the eagles and the vultures. The caracaras act as scavengers, and are also called carrion buzzards . Note: The black caracara ...
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n. any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South America and Central America
Usage examples of caracara.
There was only a crested caracara, floating high up on a thermal, long-necked and long-tailed against the bright blue of the desert sky.
He did go as far as a point on the river Caracara, in what is now the province of Santa Fe, and there he built a fort which he named Espiritu Santo, the first Spanish settlement in that part of America.
Claw of the Conciliator, and that you showed him a small black claw, such as might perhaps have come from an ocelot or a caracara, and that you told him you have raised many from the dead by means of it.
The caracara coursed vipers for me, and the hawk lifted his wings to the wind from the top of a pine.
According to Azara, who takes his facts partly from the contemporary writers -- Schmidel, Alvar Nunez, Ruy Diaz de Guzman, and Barco de la Centenera -- the Guaranis were divided into numerous tribes, as Imbeguas, Caracaras, Tembues, Colistines, and many others.
The Caracaras are, from their structure, placed among the eagles: we shall soon see how ill they become so high a rank.
No other course, during the passage - always north to south - of three skuas and that revolting carrion-eater the crested caracara.