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[HBW - BirdLife (v3)] |
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Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)] |
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Pearl Kite* |
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Gampsonyx swainsonii |
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Description (10)
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Pearl Kite
© ecoregistros.org
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Family
Accipitridae (Hawks, Eagles)
Size
20 - 28 cm
First Described (Guide)
Vigors, 1825
Habitat
Dry savanna. Also, subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, moist forest, heavily degraded former forest, seasonally wet / flooded grassland. From sea-level - 1,200 m.
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.
Population
Estimated population is 1,000 - 10,000 (2010).
Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (31)...)
Pearl Kite (Gampsonyx swainsonii) [XC236737]
by Julio Delgado from Choluteca, Honduras (call)
Pearl Kite (Gampsonyx swainsonii) [XC604843]
by Francisco contreras from Via La Voragine Ecoparque 2 entrada, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia (song)
Subspecies
Disjunct Nicaraguan population reportedly indistinguishable from South American populations.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
- leonae Chubb, C, 1918 - Nicaragua; northern Colombia through Venezuela and Trinidad to Guyana and Surinam, and south to R Amazon.
- swainsonii Vigors, 1825 - Brazil south of R Amazon to eastern Peru, eastern Bolivia, Paraguay and northern Argentina.
- magnus Chubb, C, 1918 - Coastal western Colombia, Ecuador and northern Peru.
References
See References.
Files:
BirdLife International
For more information about the Pearl Kite see... BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
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