caracara

Definitions

Any of several South American and Central American birds of prey in the subfamily Caracarinae.

Equivalents

Examples

“The caracara's flight is direct⟳ and rapid, not at all like⟳ that of the vulture, which sails and soars in spirals.”

“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 life on the archipelago's outer islands, where they hunt and scavenge in colonies of penguins, seals, and albatrosses.”

CEFR level