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. 

BLACK-WINGED KITE

Photographed in Singapore November 2016

(see 349)               BLACK-WINGED KITE              Elands caeruleus

SINGAPORE               (29)

Known in Australia as Black-shouldered Kite. Found in open secondary scrub, grasslands, occasionally freshwater marshes. 31-36 cm. Widespread across Eurasia and Africa, from S Europe, Africa and the Indian sub-continent to S China, Southeast Asia, east to New Guinea.

BLACK-WINGED KITE

349           BLACK-WINGED KITE       Elanus caeruleus

South Africa          (42)

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. 

BLACK-SHOULDERED KITE

48         BLACK-SHOULDERED KITE                Elanus axillaris

Australia    (48)

Ranges all over mainland Australia. Found in grassland with trees, farms, roadways, sewerage farms, suburban paddocks. 33-38 cm, wingspan to 90cm.