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Elanine Kites
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Elanine Kites

Elaninae

An elanine kite is any of several small, lightly-built raptors with long, pointed wings.

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3 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first · about 6 known species

Elanus Kites

genusElanus

Pearl Kites

genusGampsonyx

Chelictinia

genusChelictinia

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1541529.