Hawks and Eagles (Accipitridae)
White-tailed Kite (Elanus leucurus) - HBW 2, p. 115
French: Élanion à queue blanche
German: Weißschwanzaar
Spanish: Elanio Maromero
Taxonomy: Milvus leucurus Vieillot, 1818, Paraguay.
Forms superspecies with E. caeruleus and E. axillaris; these three sometimes considered a single species, but morphology and behavioural differences support specific status for E. leucurus. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- majusculus Bangs & Penard, 1920 - W & S USA (from Oregon to C Florida, occasionally to South Carolina) and N Mexico; also most of Central America (race uncertain).
- leucurus (Vieillot, 1818) - Panama, S through Amazonia to C Argentina (Mendoza and Buenos Aires) and C Chile (Valdivia).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird perched at the top of a branch Locality Monteverde, Costa Rica (ssp yetapa)
Max Roth 28 February 2001 7 years ago 26 sec 3.3 -
A bird hovering and flying. Locality Uniao dos Palmares, Alagoas State, Brazil (ssp leucurus)
Josep del Hoyo 9 October 2008 4 years ago 35 sec 2.8 -
Silhouette of a bird flying Locality Chapadao do Ceu, Goiás State, Brazil (ssp leucurus )
Josep del Hoyo 8 January 2005 6 years ago 7 sec 2.1
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a couple copulating...
Locality Telica, León Department, Nicaragua
Orlando Jarquín G. 19 April 2012 1 year ago 3.1 -
One individual flying
Locality Hacienda La Zuliana, Campo Boscán, Maracaibo, Zulia State, Venezuela
kperezleon 23 February 2009 4 years ago 3 -
Looking for prey...
Locality El Consuelo, Atlántico Sur Autonomous Region, Nicaragua
Orlando Jarquín G. 29 August 2011 1 year ago 2.4 -
White-tailed Kite (Elanus leucurus)
Locality Humedal de Córdoba, Bogotá, Colombia
Pedro Arturo Camargo Mart... 12 February 2009 2 years ago 2.4 -
A bird in flight seen from below.
Locality Tafi del Valle, Tucumán Province, Argentina (ssp leucurus)
Joe Tobias 1 September 2003 1 year ago 2.3 -
Perching
Locality Bogotá, Colombia
oleicfrisbee 1 year ago 2
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Calls of an individual Locality New Melones Lake, California, USA (United States)
(ssp majusculus)
Stuart Fisher 13 April 2011 2 years ago 3
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