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Black shouldered Kite (Elanus caeruleus) in Kawal WS, AP W IMG 1681🦅

Photo: J.M.Garg · CC BY-SA 4.0

SpeciesAccipitriformesAccipitridae
Birds

🦅Black-winged kite

Elanus caeruleus (Desfontaines, 1789)

カタグロトビ（肩黒鳶、学名：Elanus caeruleus）は、タカ科に分類される鳥類の一種。別名ハイイロトビ。昼行性の小型猛禽類で、ハヤブサ属のように、開けた草原の上空をホバリングする。旧北区とエチオピア区に分布し、オーストラリアのオーストラリアカタグロトビおよびアメリカ大陸のオジロトビとともに上種を形成する。長い翼、白と黒と灰色の羽毛、赤い虹彩、フクロウのような正面に付いた眼が特徴である。近縁種であるオーストラリアのクロオビトビは、昼行性だが生態的によりフクロウに似ている。主に平原に生息するが、アジアの高地では丘陵の草地で見られる。渡りは行わないが、獲物や天敵の存在によって移動する。齧歯類の個体数の変動に適合しており、猛禽類の中でも珍しく、年に複数回子育てを行う。南ヨーロッパの個体群は、農業や畜産業といった人間活動によって増加している。

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.26 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
6 years
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Everything we know about the Black-winged kite

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.26 kg
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 0.26 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.13 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.29 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.03 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.03 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
6 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Grassland
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Aerial
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.3 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Black-winged kite yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderAccipitriformes
  5. ›familyAccipitridae
  6. ›genusElanus
  7. ›speciesElanus caeruleus
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  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
  3. familyAccipitridae
  4. genusElanus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
  11. familyAccipitridae
  12. genusElanus
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elani comú (ca), luněc šedý (cs), Blå Glente (da), Gleitaar (de), elanio común (es), liitohaukka (fi) … and 26 more languages
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