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| | Kite, Birds, Kite, Bird Pictures, Catalog, Encyclopedia |
 | | They are distinguished by their graceful, gliding flight and occur most commonly near water or wetlands. |
 | | Kites are classified in three subfamilies: Elaninae, or the white-tailed kites; Perninae, or the fork-tailed kites (and honey buzzards); and Milvinae, or the true kites. |
 | | The swallow-tailed kite, Elanoides forficatus, found from the southeastern United States and the West Indies to northern Argentina, is slim, fl above, and white below and has a white head and a long, deeply forked tail. |
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