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Plumbeous kite

Ictinia plumbea

Photo by BrunoMoller
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Field Notes

Description:

•They eat insects, lizards, snakes and other small prey.
•They can live solitary, in pairs or in groups, sometimes mixed with other species.
•Thay lay 1 or 2 blue-white eggs in the nest.

Habitat:

Lowland forest and savanna
-I saw this kite in Foz do Iguaçu (PR, Brazil)

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