BLACK-WINGED KITE

 

Photographed at Arey Ksat, Cambodia, November 2023

(* 349)           BLACK-WINGED KITE       Elanus caeruleus

CAMBODIA              26 

Also known as Black-shouldered Kite, once considered as part of one species with Australian Black-shouldered Kite and the White-tailed Kite of North and South America. Ranges open land and semi-desert in sub-Saharan Africa and tropical Asia, and established in Spain and Portugal, expanding in southern Europe.