(2017) Birds of New Guinea, Including Bismarck Archipelago and Boughainville. Species account: Brahminy Kite Haliastur indus. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. It is most common in tropical eastern South America but also occurs from Central America to the United States. It is about 60 cm long, including its long forked tail. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. The swallow-tailed kite of the New World ( Elanoides forficatus) is a striking black and white bird of the subfamily Perninae. In Australia a northern coastal species found from about Shark Bay in Western Australia to central New South Wales. Black Kite can be distinguished by its shallowly forked tail.īreeds in much of India and Sri Lanka and in mainly coastal areas from Burma and southern China south to Malaya and from the Philippines, Borneo and Sumatra east to New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and Solomon Islands, and Australia. In Australia, juvenile easily confused with Whistling Kite and Square-tailed Kite note shorter tail of Brahminy, and exact pattern of dark and pale on underwing. Underwing with dark brown carpal bar and secondaries, pale secondary coverts and inner primaries (forming a broad pale 'H' across the wingspan), and black outer primariesĪdults unmistakable.Tail relatively short square-ended, to rounded when fanned not forked.White head and breast, finely streaked grey or pure white (see Subspecies, below).Chestnut brown body and wings except for black outer primaries.Male slightly smaller than female no sex difference in plumage.Length 44–52 cm (17¼-20½ in), wingspan 109–124 cm, weight 320–670 g Click here for more information about the Red List categories and criteria Justification of Red List category This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of. Kuala Gula Bird Sanctuary, Malaysia, 10 October 2004
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