Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Gavião-de-cabeça-cinza (Gray-headed Kite)

Leptodon cayanensis (Latham, 1790)

Description:

The gray-headed kite is 46–53 cm in length and weighs 410-605 g. The adult has a grey head, black upperparts, white underparts, and a black tail with two or three white bars. The bill is blue and the legs grey. The flight is a deliberate flap-flap-glide.
Immature birds have two colour morphs; the light phase is similar to the adult, but has a white head and neck, with a black crown and eyestripe, black bill and yellow legs. The dark phase has a blackish head, neck and upperparts, and dark-streaked buff underparts.

Habitat:

The gray-headed kite has neotropical distribution being found from Mexico to Paraguay and northern Argentina (Ferguson-Lees and Christie 2001). In Brazil is distributed throughout the territory in forested regions, including in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo e Rio Grande do Sul.

Notes:

The town of the coordinates (lat: -22.538426, long: -43.228437) that I used for search, is not DUQUE DE CAXIAS, as reports the search map tool of this page, but PETRÓPOLIS, as shown here:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/22%C2%...

Species ID Suggestions



Sign in to suggest organism ID

No Comments

Duque de Caxias, RJ, Brazil

Spotted on Sep 8, 2015
Submitted on Feb 29, 2016

Related Spottings

Milano cabeza gris (Gray-headed kite) Gray-headed Kite Grey-headed Kite Grey-headed Kite

Nearby Spottings

Beija-flor-de-fronte-violeta (Violet-capped Woodnymph) - Male Beija-flor-de-fronte-violeta (Violet-capped Woodnymph) - Female Robber Fly Jumping spider
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team