Crested Caracara Range Map

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Resident. Nonmigratory (resident) throughout its range.

Cornell Lab of Ornithology (2020) Distribution map for Crested Caracara Caracara plancus. Modified accounting for taxonomic differences from BirdLife International and Handbook of the Birds of the World (2019) Bird species distribution maps of the world. Version 2017.2.

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