Milvago brodkorbi Campbell 1979 (caracara)

Aves - Falconiformes - Falconidae

Full reference: K. E. Campbell. 1979. The non-passerine Pleistocene avifauna of the Talara Tar Seeps, northwestern Peru. Royal Ontario Museum Life Sciences Contribution 118:1-203

Belongs to Milvago according to K. E. Campbell 1979

Sister taxon: Milvago chimachima

Type specimen: ROM 17447, a limb element (left tarsometatarsus). Its type locality is Talara Tar Seeps, which is in a Pleistocene tar horizon in Peru.

Ecology: volant carnivore

Distribution: found only at Talara Tar Seeps

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