Grey-headed Kite (Leptodon cayanensis) Science Article 1 abstract The Gray-headed Kite (Leptodon cayanensis), a little-known Neotropical raptor (Blake 1977, Brown and Amadon 1989, de1 Hoyo et al. 1994); occurs in lowland tropical forests from central-eastern Mexico to northern Argentina (Brown and Amadon 1989). Only one nest and two clutches of the species have been described […]
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Grey-headed Kite (Leptodon cayanensis)
[order] ACCIPITRIFORMES | [family] Accipitridae | [latin] Leptodon cayanensis | [authority] Latham, 1790 | [UK] Grey-headed Kite | [FR] Milan de Cayenne | [DE] Cayenneweih | [ES] Milano Cabecigris | [NL] Grijskopwouw Subspecies Monotypic species Genus Members of the genus Leptodon are rather large Kites. The tail is long and rounded; the wings long and […]