Swallow-tailed Kite (Elanoides forficatus) Science Article 5 abstract Surinam the Swallow-tailed Kite (Elanoides forficatus) is one of the commonest raptors. Present all through the year and sociable at all seasons, it usually occurs in flocks of up to 30 individuals. My records show no evidence that its numbers are augmented at any particular season by […]
Category: Accipitriformes
Agonistic Behavior In The Swallow-Tailed Kite
Swallow-tailed Kite (Elanoides forficatus) Science Article 4 abstract The Swallow-tailed Kite (Elanoides forficatus) is an uncommon to fairly common visitorto wetland habitat of central Florida (Stevenson and Anderson 1994). This species iseasily recognized by its deeply forked tail and habit of soaring above the treetops (Kaleet al. 1990) W. BOYD BLIHOVDE, Florida Field Naturalist 30(2):41, […]
Nesting of Jerdons Baza Aviceda jerdoni and Black Baza A. leuphotes in Buxa Tiger Reserve, West Bengal, India
Jerdons Baza (Aviceda jerdoni) Science Article 1 abstract Jerdon?s Baza Aviceda jerdoni and Black Baza A. leuphotes have similar distributions in south, east and north-east India to South-East Asia and China (Grimmett et al. 1998, Ferguson-Lees and Christie 2001). Their breeding biology is relatively poorly known, although some information has been published e.g. Baker (1935), […]
Breeding biology of the grey-faced buzzard (butastur indicus) in northeastern china
Grey-faced Buzzard (Butastur indicus) Science Article 1 abstract We studied the breeding biology of the Grey-faced Buzzard (Butastur indicus) in Zuojia Nature Reserve, linlin province, China from 1996-98. Grey-faced Buzzards are summer residents in northeastern China. Nesting sites were occupied in March and annual reoccupancy was 60%. Grey-faced Buzzards built new or repaired old nests […]
The taxonomic status of Flores Hawk Eagle Spizaetus floris
Flores Hawk-Eagle (Nisaetus floris) Science Article 1 abstract The Changeable Hawk Eagle Spizaetus cirrhatus complex ranges from India (cirrhatus) through South-East Asia (mainly limnaeetus) to Flores, Sumbawa and Lombok, Indonesia (floris). The latter taxon is morphologically very distinct from the widespread limnaeetus. It has diagnostic white patches on the upperside of the inner parts of […]
Nesting of Black Baza A. leuphotes and Jerdons Baza Aviceda jerdoni in Buxa Tiger Reserve, West Bengal, India
Black Baza (Aviceda leuphotes) Science Article 1 abstract Jerdon?s Baza Aviceda jerdoni and Black Baza A. leuphotes have similar distributions in south, east and north-east India to South-East Asia and China (Grimmett et al. 1998, Ferguson-Lees and Christie 2001). Their breeding biology is relatively poorly known, although some information has been published e.g. Baker (1935), […]
Epizootic Vacuolar Myelinopathy of the Central Nervous System of Bald Eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) and American Coots (Fulica americana)
Bald Eagle () Science Article 1 abstract Unprecedented mortality occurred in bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) at DeGray Lake, Arkansas, during the winters of 1994-1995 and 1996-1997. The first eagles were found dead during November, soon after arrival from fall migration, and deaths continued into January during both episodes. In total, 29 eagles died at or […]
Elanus leucurus breeding in Surinam
White-tailed Kite (Elanus leucurus) Science Article 2 abstract The South American race of the White-tailed Kite (E. l. leucurus) according to Hellmayr and Conover (‘Catalogue of Birds of the Americas’. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Set. 13, pt. 1, No. 4: 18, 1949) has been found definitely breeding only in Argentina and Chile. ‘The scattered […]
Food partitioning between breeding White-tailed Kites(Elanus leucurus; Aves; Accipitridae) and Barn Owls(Tyto alba; Aves; Tytonidae) in southern Brazil
White-tailed Kite (Elanus leucurus) Science Article 1 abstract I examined the diet of breeding White-tailed Kites (Elanus leucurus; Aves; Accipitridae) and Barn Owls (Tyto alba; Aves; Tytonidae) in an agrarian area of southern Brazil by analyzing regurgitated prey remains. The objective was to evaluate how these raptors, which differ markedly in their hunting activity periods […]
PREY OF THE WHITE-TAILED KITE IN CENTRAL CHILE AND ITS RELATION TO THE HUNTING HABITAT
White-tailed Kite (Elanus leucurus) Science Article 3 abstract Between November 1973 and January 1974 we collected 702 pellets of Whitetailed Kites (Elanus lecurus) in two areas of central Chile differing in their vegetation physiognomy (disturbed versus undisturbed). We compared the diversity, age structure, and mean prey size of items found in pelletsf rom both simmTs.h […]