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Milvus migrans front(ThKraft)🦅

Photo: Thomas Kraft (ThKraft) · CC BY-SA 2.5

SpeciesAccipitriformesAccipitridae
Birds

🦅Black Kite

Milvus migrans (Boddaert, 1783)

솔개(영어: black kite, 일본어: 鳶 (トビ) 토비[*], 학명: Milvus migrans 밀부스 미그란스[*])는 수리과의 새다. 수명은 평균 24년이다.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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≈ 1/85th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.73 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
24 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Black Kite

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

Body mass
0.73 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

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

Figures vary

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
24 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

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

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

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

Volume l
0.7 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 Kite yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderAccipitriformes
  5. ›familyAccipitridae
  6. ›genusMilvus
  7. ›speciesMilvus migrans
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
  3. familyAccipitridae
  4. genusMilvus
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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. genusMilvus
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More about the Black Kite

Closest relative on this site
🦅 Bald Eagle — last shared an ancestor ≈ 22 million years ago.
In other languages
トビ (ja), Milan noir (fr), milà negre (ca), luňák hnědý (cs), Sort Glente (da), Schwarzer Milan (de) … and 28 more languages
More photos
Milvus migrans front(ThKraft)109 Black kite in Jim Corbett National Park Photo by Giles Laurent
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