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Crested Caracara

Caracara cheriway

Lives in Florida all year and nests here. Found in 18 of 67 counties, across 5 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
18 of 67 counties
Habitats
5

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
18 of 67 counties
Habitats
5
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Florida 5

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 5

Prairies and grasslands

Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County
Year-roundFlorida Dry PrairieLimestone prairie. Shown: Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County, Georgia, a neighboring state.Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County, Alan M. Cressler / U.S. Geological Survey, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Depression ponds and limesinks

Shallow ponds in Coastal Plain depressions, such as limesinks and the ponds in some Carolina bays, that rise and fall with the seasons.

Year-roundCentral Florida Herbaceous Pondshore

Florida scrub

Evergreen scrub oaks, sand pine and rosemary on deep, white, drought-prone sand ridges, burned rarely but intensely; distinct from the longleaf and turkey oak sandhills.

Year-round

Pine flatwoods

Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.

Year-roundCentral Florida Pine Flatwoods

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

Year-roundPasture/Hay
Other habitats in its models (8)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida.

  • Developed, Low Intensity Year-round.
  • Texas Coastal Bend Beach Year-round.
  • Tamaulipan Mesquite Upland Scrub Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Year-round.
  • Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Year-round.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Year-round.
  • Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Year-round.

All habitats

Seasons in Florida

  • Year-round: nests here, in 18 of 67 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 108

Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.

Wildlife 233

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources