Yellow-headed Caracara

Milvago chimachima

The yellow-headed caracara is a new-world bird of prey in the family Falconidae, of the Falconiformes order. It can be found in North America and South America, from Nicaragua to Uruguay. Source

Where it is now

In the last 8 weeks this bird was recorded 10,560 times across 20 areas (each area is a 5 degree square).

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Movement and weather

Over the weeks it was present in the past year, its centre in South America ranged from 16°S in May to 6°N in November, about 2,400 km apart.

Arrival dates

The week it was first heard regularly in each region, after at least six weeks away. Dates differ from south to north, so a region has a range.

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Figures are effort corrected and come from automatic sound identification, which makes mistakes. How this is measured and how it compares with human observers.