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Leptodon cayanensis (Latham, 1790)
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.
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.
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%...
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