page_title: List of birds of Brazil
section_title: Falcons
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Brazil / Falcons
caption_attribution_description: English: Southern crested caracara (Caracara plancus), the Pantanal, Brazil
context_page_description: Brazil has one of the richest bird diversities in the world. The avifauna of Brazil include a total of 1823 confirmed species of which 238 are endemic. Five have been introduced by humans, 78 are rare or vagrants, and four are extinct or extirpated. An additional 21 species are hypothetical.
  Brazil hosts about 60% of the bird species recorded for all of South America. These numbers are still increasing almost every year, due to new occurrences, new species being described, or splits of existing species. About 10% of the bird species found in Brazil are, nonetheless, threatened.
  In June 2013 a simultaneous discovery of fifteen bird species in Brazil was announced, the first such since 1871, when August von Pelzeln described forty new species. The birds were from the families Corvidae, Thamnophilidae, Dendrocolaptidae, Tyrannidae, and Polioptilidae. Eleven of the new species are endemics of Brazil and four also inhabit Peru and Bolivia.
  Except as an entry is cited otherwise, the list of species is that of the South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society. The list's taxonomic treatment and nomenclature are also those of the SACC.
context_section_description: Order: Falconiformes   Family: Falconidae
  Falconidae is a family of diurnal birds of prey. They differ from hawks, eagles and kites in that they kill with their beaks instead of their talons.
  Laughing falcon, Herpetotheres cachinnans
  Barred forest-falcon, Micrastur ruficollis
  Lined forest-falcon, Micrastur gilvicollis
  Cryptic forest-falcon, Micrastur mintoni
  Slaty-backed forest-falcon, Micrastur mirandollei
  Collared forest-falcon, Micrastur semitorquatus
  Buckley's forest-falcon, Micrastur buckleyi
  Crested caracara, Caracara cheriway
  Southern caracara, Caracara plancus
  Red-throated caracara, Ibycter americanus
  Black caracara, Daptrius ater
  Yellow-headed caracara, Milvago chimachima
  Chimango caracara, Milvago chimango
  Eurasian kestrel, Falco tinnunculus (V)
  American kestrel, Falco sparverius
  Merlin, Falco columbarius (V)
  Bat falcon, Falco rufigularis
  Orange-breasted falcon, Falco deiroleucus
  Aplomado falcon, Falco femoralis
  Peregrine falcon, Falco peregrinus
caption: Southern caracara
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