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Scissor-tailed Kite - BirdForum Opus

Chelictinia riocourii
Photo by MURAMURA
Murchison Falls National Park Uganda

Identification

Distribution

Africa: occurs in arid zone of northern tropical Africa from Senegal east to Ethiopia and northern Somalia, mainly between about 80N and 150N. Range extends south in the Dahomey Gap in Ivory Coast and Ghana and to Lake Turkana in Kenya. Migratory and nomadic.

Taxonomy

Habitat

Semi-desert and Savannah.

Behaviour

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