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Brahminy Kite

Haliastur indus

Photo by SukanyaDatta
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Field Notes

Description:

Rust coloured lower body. white bib streaked with rust. Head aquiline.

Habitat:

First spotted on road kill along with Black kites (Milvus migrans govinda). This one was sitting on a tree, all by itself, preening. A little further off from the others.

Notes:

Sorry. I had initially wrongly Id-ed it as Pallas's Fish Eagle.

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Brahminy Kite

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PublishedMay 13, 2014

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