How to Use caracara in a Sentence

caracara

noun
  • That is a book about the caracara, which is a very intelligent bird.
    Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
  • When on land, they’re preyed upon by foxes, caracara birds, and wild dogs.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2021
  • One poignant section of the book recounts the early 20th century extinction of the Guadalupe caracara.
    Sam Hodges, Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2021
  • With the caracaras, Ms. Harrington had the opposite problem.
    Darren Incorvaia, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • It’s long been suspected that caracara might have a form of chemical protection against wasps.
    Gwen Pearson, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2013
  • At the 116-acre Central Florida Zoo, keepers with the exotic birds struggled to catch a stubborn caracara.
    CBS News, 10 Sep. 2017
  • The striated caracara, found chiefly in the Falklands and on the southeast coast of South America, is the subject of Meiburg’s extraordinary book.
    Washington Post, 7 May 2021
  • The fresh fennel and bitter radicchio and frisée mix mingles with paper-thin shavings of salty ricotta salata and juicy segments of caracara orange.
    Lindsey McClave, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2018
  • In addition to these sphinxes of the Pacific, I was struck by a silence in which the cry of a caracara soaring in the distance was clear and piercing, and the click of a camera as disruptive to a meditative thought as a car horn.
    Eric Hiss, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2016
  • Taking the beet salad to the next level, this gorgeous version stars three varieties of beets alongside duck prosciutto, rhubarb, caracara oranges, pepper cress and seasonal berries.
    Laurie Delk, Pacific San Diego Magazine, 29 Aug. 2017

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