ANATOMY OF BIRDS
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
MIGRATIONS OF BIRDS
CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS
LIZARD-TAILED BIRD
AMERICAN TOOTHED-BIRDS
THE OSTRICHES
THE RHEAS
EMEUS AND CASSOWARIES
THE TINAMOUS
THE KIWIS
THE PENGUINS
LOONS AND GREBES
ALBATROSSES & PETRELS
STORK-LIKE BIRDS
GOOSE-LIKE BIRDS
FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
FOWL-LIKE BIRDS
CRANE-LIKE BIRDS
PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
CUCKOO-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
THE KITES, BUZZARDS, EAGLES, HAWKS, AND ALLIES
Black Kite
Another widely distributed species is the Black or Migrating Kite (M. migrans), which is found in central and southern Europe, central Asia, and southward in winter over the whole of Africa.
It is a little smaller than the Common Kite and is easily distinguished by its much darker color above and by the dark brown, indistinctly barred tail.
It is an active bird, filling the place of a scavenger in many places, gaining most of its food from refuse heaps, offal from slaughter-houses, and an occasional fowl. It nests in the tops of palm trees.
The Arabian Kite
(M. agyptius), which extends over the whole of Africa and Madagascar, and thence into southeastern Europe, Greece, and Dalmatia, is quite similar to the Common Kite, being distinguished among other characters by the brown, black-barred tail and bright yellow cere and bill.
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