Chimango Caracara

Here the details of the Chimango Caracara named bird below:

SCI Name:  Milvago chimango
Protonym:  Polyborus chimango Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 5 p.260
Taxonomy:  Falconiformes / Falconidae / Milvago
Taxonomy Code:  chicar1
Type Locality:  Rare in Paraguay, common on the Rio de la Plata, ex Azara.
Author:  Vieillot
Publish Year:  1816
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MILVAGO
(Falconidae; Ϯ Yellow-headed Caracara M. chimachima) L. milvago  kite  < milvus  kite; -ago  -resembling; "GENUS VIII.  MILVAGO.  Habitu Milvi; rostro Gymnopi simillimo, breviore, acuto, minus adunco et circa oculos multo minus nudo; alis longioribus, caudam breviorem aequantibus; naribus rotundis; gula non nuda.   SPECIES 1. MILVAGO OCHROCEPHALUS." (von Spix 1824); "Milvago Spix, Av. Bras., 1, 1824, p. 12. Type, by monotypy, Milvago ochrocephalus Spix = Polyborus chimachima Vieillot." (Peters 1931, 1, 279).
Var. Milwago.
Synon. Parasifalco.

chimango
Local Argentinian onomatopoeia Chimango for a caracara; ex “Chimángo” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 5 (Phalcoboenus).

SUBSPECIES

Chimango Caracara (chimango)
SCI Name: Milvago chimango chimango
chimango
Local Argentinian onomatopoeia Chimango for a caracara; ex “Chimángo” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 5 (Phalcoboenus).

Chimango Caracara (temucoensis)
SCI Name: Milvago chimango temucoensis
temucoensis
Temuco, Cautín, Chile.