Milvago
{{Short description|Genus of birds}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Milvago
| image = Milvago chimango Dichato Chile Flickr.jpg
| image_caption = Chimango caracara (Milvago chimango)
| type_species = Milvago ochrocephalus{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=35 |title= Falconidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-25}}
| type_species_authority = von Spix, 1824
| taxon = Milvago
| authority = Spix, 1824
}}
Milvago is a genus of bird of prey in the family Falconidae.
Species
Milvago contains two extant species:
{{Species table |genus= Milvago |authority-name=Spix|authority-year= 1824 |species-count=two|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}
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|name=Yellow-headed caracara |binomial=Milvago chimachima
|image=File:Gelbkopfkarakara Milvago chimachima.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Vieillot |authority-year=1816 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Costa Rica south through Trinidad and Tobago to northern Argentina (the provinces of Misiones, Chaco, Formosa, Corrientes and Santa Fe)
|range-image=File:Milvago chimachima map.svg
|range-image-size=180px
|size=
|habitat=
|hunting=
|iucn-status= LC
|population=
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{{Species table/row
|name=Chimango caracara |binomial=Milvago chimango
|image=File:Milvago chimango -Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil-8.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Vieillot |authority-year= 1816|authority-not-original=yes
|range= Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay and south of Brazil.
|range-image=File:Phalcoboenus chimango map.svg
|range-image-size=180px
|size=
|habitat=
|hunting=
|iucn-status= LC
|population=
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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Two subspecies |bullets=on
| M. c. caracara
| M. c. temucoensis
}}
}}
{{Species table/end}}
They are native to South America and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean, with M. chimachima just reaching to the Isthmus of Panama and into Costa Rica, though recently having expanded its range into the northern part of the country. Prehistorically the genus extended much further north into Cuba and Hispaniola.
;Fossil species
- †Milvago brodkorbi (Late Pleistocene of Peru)
- †Milvago alexandri (Late Pleistocene of Hispaniola, West Indies)
- †Milvago carbo, Cuban caracara (Holocene of Cuba, West Indies)
- †Milvago diazfrancoi (Late Pleistocene of Cuba){{Cite journal|last=Suárez|first=William|date=2020-05-22|title=The fossil avifauna of the tar seeps Las Breas de San Felipe, Matanzas, Cuba|url=https://mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4780.1.1|journal=Zootaxa|language=en|volume=4780|issue=1|pages=zootaxa.4780.1.1|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4780.1.1|pmid=33055754 |s2cid=219510089 |issn=1175-5334}}
A paleosubspecies of the yellow-headed caracara from Florida is also known.
References
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