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Seen on Eastern Lake Trail in Santa Rosa Beach FL
This beauty flew by me at Mahogany Hammock in the Everglades.
super cool bird. it has a very sinister shape almost like a frigate bird.
A most graceful predator. Usually consumes prey while in flight...
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Sorry the picture is of such poor quality. I took it with my iPad, and he ...
It measures 58 cm. and weighs 480 grams. It is long, pointed wings, long tail ...
Feeding in flight, more pictures and details ...
Second spotting of this species over a three day period. Two different birds ...
I think it was a mated pair - flying in circles together.
Distinctive large bird with a forked tail and a striking black and white body
I was on the bank of the Rio Grande River at the National Butterfly Center when ...
"The largest of North America kites, has black upperparts which contrast with ...
El elanio tijereta (Elanoides forficatus), ...
I have been trying to take a photo of this bird for 5 months, it comes around a ...
Flies so graceful, I saw 1, then 2, later I saw a family of about 5 they make ...
this is one of my favorite photos i got in flamingo unfortunately the edges of ...
Medium-sized hawk. Striking black-and-white coloring, with white head and body ...
The Willian Beardall Tosohatchee State Reserve has a nice population of ...
I saw quite a few of these birds swooping and circling over the woods and ...
Medium-sized hawk. Striking black-and-white coloring, with white head and body ...
There were four flying around my neighborhood.
I saw two of these birds carrying sticks over a few days. I saw them perching ...
A strikingly marked raptor of wetlands in the southeastern United States, the ...
It measures 58 cm. and weighs 480 grams. It has long and pointed wings, long ...
Striking black-and-white coloring, with white head and body and black wings and ...
A strikingly marked raptor of wetlands in the southeastern United States, the ...
A strikingly marked raptor of wetlands in the southeastern United States, the ...
Typical swooping and soaring behavior. Forked tail, pied coloration. Some ...
The Swallow-tailed Kite is an elanid kite which breeds from the southeastern ...
The kite is the larger bird in the photographs. Large bird with split tail, ...
