black kite
milvus migrans latin

Black Kites, and other birds of prey are common during the dry season.

The dark shape hung like a black kite on the wind, the soft voice a song in her mind.

Black kites can still be seen soaring between the sky-scrapers.

And now his kite, the black kite with the two big eyes, plunged out of the sky.

Examples are the oriole, the nightingale and the endangered black kite.

Their descendants are thriving, a hazard to the nesting birds, including the black kites.

Black Kites are most often seen gliding and soaring on thermals as they search for food.

I watched the black kites wheeling out over the water and found that I was calming down.

'There's very little moon, these engines are pretty quiet, and I'm using the black kite.'

A huge black kite sat in the treetop outside the window, the early morning sunlight turning its feathers iridescent.

Black Kites often perch on electric wires and are frequent victims of electrocution.

The call is a squealing call somewhat like that of a Black Kite.

The only large predator of the region with a deeply forked tail, except for the Black Kite.

Almost obscured by the fog, a huge, black kite darted hither and yon up in the sky.

The dark man had lifted his arms inside his robe, turning the robe into the shape of a black kite.

There are three versions of Black Kite.

For nesting they use the old stick nests of other birds, especially Black Kite, which are situated high in a tree.

High-flying black kites and ground-skimming marsh harriers searched for dead or dying fish.

Black Kites in Spain prey on nestling waterfowl especially during summer to feed their young.

Fauna includes black kites, snakes, lizards and estuary birds.

The Phoenix warrior's hang glider resembled a giant black kite sailing across the star-filled sky.

Red kite x black kite: five bred unintentionally at a falconry center in England.

Other than nest cavities, there are very isolated records of nesting on cliff shelves and in old black kite nests.

Predation of nests of other pairs of Black Kites has also been noted.

She also appeared in the 1996 short film Black Kites, directed by Jo Andres.

Electron microscopy photos of the pecten in the black kite (Milvus migrans)

Black kite (Milvus migrans)

The Black Kite (Milvus migrans) is a medium-sized bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes many other diurnal raptors.

Some birds, such as the Black Kite (Milvus migrans), have learned to attack the toad's belly, avoiding the poison-producing glands on the back of the head.

Kites (black-winged, Elanus caeruleus; red, Milvus milvus; black, Milvus migrans)

ACCIPITRIDAE Milvus migrans (Black Kite), (Yellow-billed Kite)

The Yellow-billed Kite (Milvus aegyptius) is the Afrotropic counterpart of the Black Kite (Milvus migrans), of which it is most often considered a subspecies.

There are for example populations of threatened birds, including colonies of breeding water birds such as the world's largest populations of the near-threatened Asian Openbill (Anastomus oscitans), and other birds such as the wintering Black Kite (Milvus migrans).

The Brahminy Kite is about the same size as the Black Kite (Milvus migrans) and has a typical kite flight, with wings angled, but its tail is rounded unlike the Milvus species, Red Kite and Black Kite, which have forked tails.