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White-tailed Kite

Elanus leucurus

Photo by Jellis
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Field Notes

Description:

Medium size hawk. White head and underside with gray back and wings. Dark gray shoulders and a white tail. White feathers down the yellow legs. Red eyes look sunken with dark lores. Beak is black.

Habitat:

This one was spotted flying over a marsh by the bay.

Notes:

Spotted just after it picked up some kind of rodent in the marsh

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PublishedMarch 13, 2014

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