black kite

NOUN
  1. dark Old World kite feeding chiefly on carrion
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How To Use black kite In A Sentence

  • Both sexes of white storks and black kites look alike, so gender was determined by molecular procedures using DNA extracted from the cellular fraction of a few drops of blood.
  • Birds include species of swan goose Anser cygnoides, crested honey buzzard Pernis ptilorhyncus, black kite Milvus migrans, hawk owl Sunia ulula, rock ptarmigan Lagopus mutus, hazel grouse Tetrastes bonasia, capercaillie Tetrao urogallus and great bustard Otis tarda. Lake Baikal Basin, Russian Federation
  • The only large predator of the region with a deeply forked tail, except for the Black Kite.
  • Raptors amongst the stabilised sands include 15 breeding pairs (about a tenth of the world's population) of the Spanish imperial eagle Aquila heliaca adalberti (VU), black vulture Aegypius monachus, short-toed eagle Circaetus gallicus, booted eagle Hieraaetus pennatus, buzzard Buteo buteo, black kite Milvus migrans, black-shouldered kite Elanus caeruleus, red kite M. milvus, and hobby Falco subbuteo. Doñana National Park, Spain
  • But according to Cooper (1980) ‘in anatomical structure there is no significant difference between [the intertarsal joints of Polyboroides] and the corresponding joints of Kestrel, Tawny eagle or Black kite’ (p. 98). Archive 2006-05-01
  • Black kites were sampled in and around the Doñana National Park, in the vicinity of the contaminated area.
  • Whilst setting up, I noticed a Black Kite quartering the river and it was not until much later that I found out that this was a rare sighting.
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