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	Black-winged Kite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Black-winged Kite (Elanus caeruleus) is a small bird of prey in the family Accipitridae which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as eagles, buzzards and harriers.
		It has a white head with a fl "mask", and white underparts except for fl tips to its narrow falcon-like wings.
		Upperparts are blue-grey except for fl shoulder patches.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black-winged_Kite (189 words)

	Black Kite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Black Kite (Milvus migrans) is a medium-sized bird of prey in the family Accipitridae which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as eagles, buzzards, and harriers.
		The Black Kite can be distinguished from the Red Kite by its slightly smaller size, less forked tail and generally dark plumage without any rufous.
		The Red Kite has been known to successfully hybridize with the Black Kite (in captivity where both species were kept together, and in the wild on the Cape Verde Islands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_Kite (347 words)

	Kite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A kite is a bird, a member of any of several genera in the family Accipitridae in the raptor order Accipitriformes, related to the hawks, eagles, buzzards and Old World vultures.
		Kite is the username of one of the heroes of Project.hack, a science fiction series which spans several media, including video games, anime and manga.
		A Kite is a controversial anime OAV, known as Kite in English or Domination NaKite in French.
	www.objectsspace.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Kite (315 words)

	Black Kite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Black Kite is a medium-sized (47 to 55 cm) bird of prey.
		The Black Kite is found in a variety of habitats, from timbered watercourses to open plains, and is often observed in and around outback towns.
		Black Kites also gather in flocks around bush fires, and eagerly pounce on small animals as these flee the flames.
	www.glue.umd.edu /~ldavison/wildlife/australian_birds/kite (196 words)

	Black Kite
		The Black Kite is a medium-sized (47 to 55 cm) bird of prey (raptor).
		The eye is dark brown and the bill is fl with a yellow cere (area of skin around the nostrils).
		Young Black Kites are generally lighter in colour than the adults, and have a comparatively shallower forked tail.
	www.amonline.net.au /factsheets/black_kite.htm (496 words)

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		This kite have to be firmly dominated by you.
		L.e/spreaders connectors are made with hard fl plastic, and they stay loose on the frame until the kite is in order to fly.
		This kite is VERY sensitive, and you have to learn it, to dominate it, to tune it at your way of flying.
	www.kites.tug.com /kites/Revfaq/Black_Bird_1.txt (1119 words)

	Snail Kite
		HABITAT: Snail Kites are found in tropical and subtropical lowland swamps and marshes with scant vegetation in Florida, a few of the Caribbean Islands, Central America, and South America.
		This kite’s beak is specially adapted to extract aquatic snails from their shells.
		The female Snail Kite may desert the male and leave him to finish raising the nestlings, while she searches for a new mate to raise a second clutch of eggs.
	www.peregrinefund.org /Explore_Raptors/kites/snailkit.html (307 words)

	Bird directive: Black Kite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Black Kites are among the most social of raptor species.
		The Black Kite is a highly adaptable species and an opportunistic feeder.
		The Black Kite population in Europe has seen a substancial decline during the twentieth century, expecially in the east.
	europa.eu.int /comm/environment/nature/directive/milvus_migrans_en.htm (156 words)

	Black-shouldered Kite at Bushy Park Wetlands
		Top of wing is pale grey with fl on shoulder and around eyes, wing quills are dark grey.
		Below wing is white with a small fl patch at bend of wing.
		The Black-shouldered Kite often uses a deserted nest of a crow or magpie.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~fbpw/black_sk.htm (259 words)

	The Black Kite, BirdCheck.co.uk
		So long ago as the year 1684 a 'Black Gled' was described by Sibbald as a then bird of Scotland; but I should think it very doubtful if this species was the one mentioned by him under that name, though of course it is possible that it may have been.
		This Kite is a plentiful species in various parts of the world, and in some appears in immense numbers.
		The wings underneath are tinged with rufous; the first quill feathers are dark reddish brown, nearly fl; the tertiaries also dark, or almost fl, reddish brown, but with a gloss of purple; greater wing coverts, deep brown, with a gloss of metallic purple, the feathers darker near the shafts and lighter along the edges.
	www.birdcheck.co.uk /main/previewpages/previewpage28.htm (697 words)

	Australian Museum - Wild Kids - Birds - Black-shouldered Kite
		When a male kite is courting a female he will sometimes dive at her, locking his talons in hers midair, and then together they will spiral downwards.
		Black-shouldered Kites are small birds of prey that live in woodlands, grasslands, paddocks and city parks over most of Australia.
		Black-shouldered Kites sit in tall dead trees or fly high above the ground in the early morning and late afternoon looking for mice, lizards, snakes, frogs and insects.
	www.amonline.net.au /wild_kids/birds/black_shouldered_kite.htm (272 words)

	Kite Review - Black Hole UL (Eolo Sport) - The Power Kite Site
		The Black Hole UL is a fine flyer in standard mode.
		The kite proved it-self to be very good as a beginner's precision kite which would take off in as little as 4mph.
		The Black Hole UL is a kite which requires large hand movements and always needs to be under control.
	www.kitepower.com /reviews/blackholeulreview.html (364 words)

	Birds of Rochedale
		Its upper parts are pale grey with a fl patch around the shoulder of the wing.
		The underparts are white except a small, fl patch under the wing.
		The kite nest is small and compact, often made of eucalypt or pine leaves and it lays 3 to 4 eggs, but can have between 2 and 4 successive broods.
	www.rochedalss.eq.edu.au /birds/kite.htm (328 words)

	Crafts : Black Cat Kite Applique : Home & Garden Television
		Keep in mind that fl is a great color to use as a background since it "matches" nearly every other color.
		HGTV guest kite expert Jose Sainz used fl as the background for his cat kite, pink as a second background color, blue for the moon, green for the cat's eyes and fl for the cat.
		Select the lightest color material to be used on the kite (pink) and cut a piece to the shape of the kite.
	www.hgtv.com /hgtv/crafting/article/0,1789,HGTV_3352_1370402,00.html (696 words)

	Black Kite (Milvus migrans) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sometimes the Black Kite is unkindly dubbed the "Kimberley Seagull" because of its habit of gathering in large numbers to scavenge around an abundant food source.
		Black Kites can often be seen at camping grounds and caravan parks, working cooperatively to tip over rubbish bins and raid them for anything edible.
		Black Kites are the birds used in the twice daily Free-Flight Displays at the Eagles Heritage Raptor Wildlife Centre in Margaret River, Western Australia.
	members.iinet.net.au /~spr/mmigrans.html (426 words)

	Everglades Kite
		The main reason for this drop in population is from the draining of marshes, primarily for sugar cane farming.
		Everglades Kites only eat apple snails if they live where apple snails are, but if there are no apple snails, they can eat snails of the same genus.
		The Everglades Kite is at the mercy of its environment.
	www.tenan.vuurwerk.nl /reports/thomas/886007966450.htm (667 words)

	brahminy kite (haliastur indus):info fact sheet, photos
		The Brahminy Kite is a familiar bird of prey and often referred to as the Singapore Bald Eagle.
		Prey on the water surface is snatched with their talons, Brahminy Kites don't dive into the water.
		The mature White-bellied's white extends to the belly, wings and tail and the rest is grey instead of bronze.
	www.naturia.per.sg /buloh/birds/Haliastur_indus.htm (978 words)

	Black Kite, Milvus migrans
		Despite its success its numbers have declined in some areas (particularly in Europe) in part as a result of poisoning and the use of pesticides.
		There are 3 subspecies of the Black Kite which occur in Kenya, M. m.
		parasitus (otherwise known as the Yellow-billed Kite) is an intra-African migrant present throughout the year (this is pictured on the linked page) - and shows an entirely yellow bill.
	www.kenyabirds.org.uk /kite-bl.htm (241 words)

	Kites - Birds ProvenceBeyond
		Although wild, kites have adapted to civilization by hunting for "prey" killed by road traffic.
		The Black Kite is perhaps the most numerous medium-sized bird of prey in the world.
		The Red Kite has an obviously forked tail, most distinctive when soaring.
	www.beyond.fr /birds/kites.html (121 words)

	JAPANESE KITE COLLECTION
		If you fly this kite near the forest where many crows live, more than two hundreds of crows will attack the kite within five minutes of flying the kite.
		This kite may be builded in order to be able to hand carry by making horizontal frame to be detachable construction.
		This crow kite is flying in backyard garden of Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhour, India.
	www.asahi-net.or.jp /~et3m-tkkw/crowkite.html (705 words)

	KiteJan : Kite Making : Black Deca part 3
		This involved unpicking all the seams in the kite (a very long job!), working out what needed cutting - which was done by eye - and cutting the fabric.
		I had originally gone for 4mm carbon spars throughout the Black Deca to keep the weight down (I had wanted a light wind kite after all).
		Looking at kite it appeared I could retain the 4mm spars in the wingtips and the verticals (there doesn't appear to be much strain on those), but replacing the bow for something a little bit more robust.
	www.kitejan.me.uk /makeproj/makeblackdeca3.htm (469 words)

	Accipitrinae - 鹰亚科 - タカ亜科 - Phân họ Ưng (5) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		老鹰 lǎo-yīng ('old hawk'), supposedly meaning 'kite', is also loosely used as a general word for 'hawk' or 'eagle'.
		ワシ washi is used for the large eagles in Aquila as well as the sea or fishing eagles (Haliaeetus/Ichthyophaga), fl eagle (Ictinaetus), short-toed eagle (Circaetus), and serpent eagle (Spilornis).
		Diều is applied to a wide range of birds, including the baza, honey buzzard, kites, fishing eagles (Ichthyophaga), buzzards, harriers, and hawk eagles in Spizaetus.
	www.cjvlang.com /Birds/eagle5.html (1036 words)

	BIRDCHAT archives -- April 1996, week 4 (#10)
		Cheers, Paul From: [log in to unmask] (Bruce Mactavish) Subject: Black Kite in Newfoundland A Black Kite was reported in Bonavista, NF on Aug. 21, 1995 by Jon Joy.
		The report was not broadcast because of the magnitude of the report and the relatively inexperienced birder who saw it.
		Three responses were in agreement [that] it was an Old World kite but two were leaning toward Red Kite and one toward Black Kite (Arnoud van den Berg, editor of _Dutch Birding_).
	listserv.arizona.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9604d&L=birdchat&F=&S=&P=806 (286 words)

	BLACK KITE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The fl kite usually doesn't nest in Israel.
		When the evening comes, the wintering fl kites gather for a group lodging in a routine place on high trees.
		It usually eats corpses, and it tends to eat in garbage piles.
	study.haifa.ac.il /~agold01/black_kite.html (95 words)

	Black-shouldered Kite, Elanus caeruleus
		There is still much debate about the taxonomy of this bird.
		Some authorities group it as a single species with E. axillaris (the Autralian Black-shouldered Kite) and E. leucurus (the White-tailed Kite).
		Others split out the species even further, classing the Sumatran Black-shouldered Kite (E. c.
	www.kenyabirds.org.uk /kite-bs.htm (187 words)

	Oakland Zoo: Black Kite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Their large wing area and light body allow them to soar earlier in the morning than most scavengers; thus they are usually the first flying scavenger at a "kill".
		In some areas the Black Kite is thought to be a threat to poultry and small game birds, but on the whole it is considered to be beneficial.
		The ability to adapt to a wide variety of habitats makes them one of the most numerous "birds of prey".
	www.oaklandzoo.org /atoz/azblkite.html (316 words)

	Milvus migrans
		The Black Kite is more compact in shape than a Red Kite and is a duller, darker brown, lacking the red colours and the obvious white wing panels.
		Indeed, it is more likely to be mistaken for a female Marsh Harrier or a dark morph Booted Eagle but has more angular wings which it holds level or slightly drooping.
		Also, the tail of a kite always looks obviously pointed at its corners and the upperwing has distinctive pale panels across the coverts.
	www.birdguides.com /html/vidlib/species/Milvus_migrans.htm (239 words)

	Shows A - Z : Carol Duvall Show : Black Cat Kite Applique : DIY Network
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		Artwork can be original or from any copyright-free source.
	www.diynet.com /diy/shows_cds/article/0,2045,DIY_15079_2498705,00.html (710 words)

	Black Kite - Milvus migrans
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		Black Kite (Fork-tailed Kite-Australia) Milvus migrans RANGE Eurasia, Africa and Australia.
	www.birdforum.net /bird_view.php?bid=731 (566 words)

	Amazon.com: 6' Black Shark Kite: Imaginarium.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This remarkable 6' long shark kite has boasts an inflatable body.
		Made of durable ripstop nylon with a flexible fiberglass frame, this kite comes ready to fly with 120' line on handle.
		First tag: kite shark (Patrick L. Hart on Nov 17, 2005)
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00009KX4R/aneas-20 (485 words)

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