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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)

黑鸢（学名：Milvus migrans），俗稱老鹰、老鸢或鸡屎鹰，粵語稱麻鷹（粵拼：maa4 jing1），閩南語作萊葉、獵鴞、鶆鴞（台羅：lāi-hio̍h），客語稱鷂婆（yeu-phò），是鷹形目鷹科鳶屬下的一種猛禽，廣泛分布於歐亞大陸和澳大利亞等地。此鳥種最明顯的特徵是其棕黑的羽色和些微分岔的尾羽。和多數鷹科猛禽不同的是，黑鳶雖然也會主動打獵，但以食腐為主，且非繁殖季會成群生活。黑鳶的適應力強，除了棲息於水域附近、草原、森林外，還能居住於城市內，實際棲地因分布區域而差異很大。雖然不少地區的族群量有所減少，但黑鳶仍是世界上最常見、最都市化的猛禽之一。目前屬無危物種。

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
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vs you
≈ 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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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
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Milvus migrans front(ThKraft)109 Black kite in Jim Corbett National Park Photo by Giles Laurent
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