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Hook-billed Kite (Chondrohierax uncinatus uncinatus)
Range: NA, MA, SA: s Texas to n Argentina
French Guiana
Rare unbarred dark morph.
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Photograph by Michel GIRAUD-AUDINE
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Hook-billed Kite (Chondrohierax uncinatus uncinatus) Female
Range: NA, MA, SA: s Texas to n Argentina
San Sebastian Reserve, Envigado, Antioquia, Colombia
Male is grey with grey barring.
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Photograph by Tom Friedel
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A widespread but uncommon hawk-sized kite which uses its hooked bill to eat tree snails. Male is mostly grey while female is rufous. Facial colors distinctive.
Eating a tree snail.
A standard grey-barred male.
Take-off
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