Milvago chimango
In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
The chimango caracara (Daptrius chimango), also known as chimango or tiuque, is a species of bird of prey in the family Falconidae, the falcons and caracaras. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay, as a vagrant on the Falkland Islands and has been introduced on Rapa Nui.
The chimango caracara was formally described in 1816 by French ornithologist Louis Vieillot under the binomial name Polyborus chimango. Vieillot based his account on the "Chimango" from Paraguay that had been described by the Spanish naturalist Félix de Azara in 1802. The specific epithet and the common name are from a local Argentinian onomatopoeia word "Chimango" for a caracara. The chimango caracara was formerly placed with the yellow-headed caracara in the genus Milvago. Molecular genetic studies found that Milvago was polyphyletic with the chimango caracara sister to the genus Phalcoboenus and the yellow-headed caracara sister to Daptrius. As the genetic divergence was relatively shallow, the polyphyly was resolved by expanding the genus Daptrius to include the two other genera.
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tierra del Fuego National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 2 | Nahuel Huapi National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 3 | Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park | 🇨🇱 Chile | |
| 4 | Torres del Paine National Park | 🇨🇱 Chile | |
| 5 | Península Valdés | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 6 | Iberá National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santiago | 🇨🇱 Chile | |
| 2 | Cordoba | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 3 | Buenos Aires | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 4 | Mendoza | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 5 | Rosario | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 6 | Curitiba | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 7 | Montevideo | 🇺🇾 Uruguay | |
| 8 | Porto Alegre | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le rocher des aigles | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 2 | Zoobotanic Park of Brusque | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Pumakawa (reserva de vida silvestre) | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 4 | Donjon des aigles | 🇫🇷 France |
Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Chimango Caracara sighting in Mendoza on a given day, based on 183 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 16th most-seen of the 71 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March–June and September–November
In those months about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Chimango Caracara in Mendoza on a given day, against about 30% in February, the lowest month.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Chimango Caracara sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
4th of 8
Of the 8 cities where we can rate Chimango Caracara sightings, Mendoza ranks 4th at about 40%. The best odds are in Santiago (Chile, about 80%), Cordoba (Argentina, about 60%) and Buenos Aires (Argentina, about 60%).
Same family: Falconidae
The closest relatives of the Chimango Caracara that you can see in Mendoza (family Falconidae, Falcons and Caracaras) are Crested Caracara (about 20%) and American Kestrel (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Chimango Caracara is recorded against all the birds logged in Mendoza (183 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
