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Mississippi Kite | Mississippi Kite | ||
Ictinia mississipiensis | Ictinia mississipiensis | ||
| − | + | ==Distribution== | |
| − | + | North, Central and South America. A summer visitor to the eastern USA from Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas east to Georgia and northern Florida. Most common in the Great Plains but range is expanding and now occurs north on the Atlantic coast to the Carolinas, in the Mississippi Valley to Illinois and west to Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. Passage birds occur through eastern and southern Mexico and Central America and winters in Paraguay and northern Argentina. | |
| − | + | ==Taxonomy== | |
| + | ==Habitat== | ||
| + | Open country with scattered groups of tall trees | ||
| + | ==Behaviour== | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
*[http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/showgallery.php?mcats=all&si=mississippi%20kite&what=title&name=&when=&whenterm= View more images of Mississippi Kite in the gallery] | *[http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/showgallery.php?mcats=all&si=mississippi%20kite&what=title&name=&when=&whenterm= View more images of Mississippi Kite in the gallery] | ||
[[Category:Birds]] | [[Category:Birds]] | ||
Revision as of 15:32, 7 June 2007
- Ictinia mississippiensis
Identification
Mississippi Kite Ictinia mississipiensis
Distribution
North, Central and South America. A summer visitor to the eastern USA from Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas east to Georgia and northern Florida. Most common in the Great Plains but range is expanding and now occurs north on the Atlantic coast to the Carolinas, in the Mississippi Valley to Illinois and west to Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. Passage birds occur through eastern and southern Mexico and Central America and winters in Paraguay and northern Argentina.
Taxonomy
Habitat
Open country with scattered groups of tall trees
