Black winged kite

[carlogalliani]

hello everyone
I' ve spent a week in South Egypt. from september 17th to 24th, with some friends
Very beatiful landscape and many rare spesies of birds
Here you can find some shots of mythical and rare Black-winged Kite
and if you want to see the full photoreport with the shots of 50 species of birds + landscape please go to:
South Egypt 2011 Photo Gallery by carlogalliani at pbase.com

thanks for looking

[paulnj]

What a great find and very nice images.

[DennisT]

This bird is remarkably similar to the Black Shouldered Kite that I have seen here photographed by Eric at Puerto Rico. It is also a pretty common raptor here in Southern Africa occurring throughout the region and further north in Africa. Here is an example of him in our area.
Lovely captures Carlo!!

[calamospiza]

Carlo, Very nice images of this Kite. Your Kite looks a lot like the Black-shouldered Kite that I once oberved in California.

[paulnj]

2 seperate species that are very close in plumage.

[Laurel421]

Carlo, Very nice images of this Kite

[calamospiza]

Ornithologist are currently in a split all species mode these days - apparently based on genetics. I read the following information on the net.

The White-tailed Kite and the Black-shouldered Kite were formerly included with this species but have since been treated as separate species. All these forms or species together form a superspecies.


Some of these are Old World or new world species. They all have gone by various names including: Black-winged Kite, Black-shouldered Kite, White-tailed Kite.

[carlogalliani]

thanks everyone for comments
is always better to use scientific names
Black winged kite ( Elanus caeruleus ) is a bird of the Palearctic and Africa
In Europe is very rare and live only in Spain