Hawks and Eagles (Accipitridae)

Slender-billed Kite (Rostrhamus hamatus) - HBW 2, p. 117

French: Milan à long bec German: Hakenweih Spanish: Caracolero Plomizo

Taxonomy: Falco hamatus Temminck, 1821, Brazil.
Traditionally, and perhaps more appropriately placed in its own genus, Helicolestes, due to marked differences with R. sociabilis in proportions and shape (especially in flight), style of flight, calls, display and habitat. Monotypic.

Distribution: E Panama, through N & E Colombia, to W, N & SE Venezuela and Surinam; also S through Amazonian Brazil to E Peru and N Bolivia (Beni); limits of range poorly documented, in part due to confusion with R. sociabilis.