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Old Tuesday 21st September 2004, 08:37   #1
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Which KITE

2 pictures taken of a kite flying over the beach near St. Lucia KZN South Africa in August 2004. Yellow Billed or Black ?????


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Old Tuesday 21st September 2004, 09:29   #2
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I'd say yellow-billed, since it appears rather dark, otherwise impossible to say, I guess, because the bill-color isn't visible.

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I'd say Black Kite, because the head seems to be rather light coloured. Greyish, en not brown what it should be by a Yellow-Billed. And, but this could also caused by the quality of the photo, in the left photo the bill seems to be rather dark.
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Old Tuesday 21st September 2004, 12:47   #4
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Id´also say Black kite- with the same reasoning as Corotauria-grey had and I think that the bill is dark
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