![]() ![]() This gave the tail a deeply forked appearance. The wings were long and pointed, and the outer rectrices were very long while the inner rectrices were short. The flight feathers and all dorsal feathers were dark, appearing a deep blue in sunlight, and black or very dark in clouded light. The head, body and underwing coverts were pure white. We got on the bird, and saw a dark and white raptor soaring through some post-storm winds. Just before we were going to leave, at 18:14 SMW was about to relieve himself on the side of the road when a buoyant raptor rose out of the woodlot. It stopped raining at 17:30, and so we decided to give it almost an hour before we left. ZMP and SMW had spent two hours sitting in the car in pouring rain, staring seemingly futilely at the woodlot for a reported Swallow-tailed Kite. "Mega, very rare at this latitude, especially away from any coast. "First seen at 835AM to west of woodlot then until 945 continuously to south and west of woodlot coursing actively over US-127, at times appearing to be nearly hit by cars."įrom Sean Williams (SMW) and Zak Pohlen (ZMP), originally posted on eBird: Observed on: Monday August 24, 2015, 6:28 AM. Photo from .Ĭlick to hear the sounds of the Swallow-tailed KiteĪll information sourced from .Īdditional Sightings of the Michigan visitor Several people have seen the Swallow-tailed Kite, see several photos taken of the same bird below!Īll of this information is courtesy of eBird. This kite lives in forested regions, often bottomland, or riverine forest, and open pine woodland.Īs you can see from the photo on the right, the Swallow-tailed Kite breeds from the southeastern United States to eastern Peru and northern Argentina. The Swallow-tailed Kite rarely flap its wings while flying, but it almost continuously rotates its tail, often to nearly 90 degrees, in order to hold a heading, make a sharp turn, or trace tight circles while drifting across the sky. Immatures look the same as adults, but with a shorter tail. Swallow-tailed Kites have l ong, thin, pointed wings and a long, forked tail. The Swallow-tailed Kite is a medium-sized hawk with striking black-and-white coloring, with white head and body and black wings and tail. ![]()
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