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

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SpeciesAccipitriformesAccipitridae
Birds

🦅Black-winged kite

Elanus caeruleus (Desfontaines, 1789)

黑翅鸢（学名：Elanus caeruleus），又名黑肩鳶（不是指分布於澳大利亞、學名為Elanus axillari的物種黑肩鳶 ）。鹰科鳶亞科黑翅鸢属的一種鸟类。主要分布于東洋界和非洲的田野和半沙漠，另外在新幾內亞、欧洲伊比利半島、尼羅河流域和阿特拉斯山脈以北的沿海地區也有分布。该物种的模式产地在阿尔及利亚阿爾及爾。黑翅鳶舊時與黑肩鳶、白尾鳶、纹翅鸢合併為一超種，並以一個指名亞種的形式存在。 雖然在金門一直都有黑翅鳶族群，但台灣一直到2001年在雲林濱海記錄到繁殖成功後，都沒有長住的群體。目前黑翅鳶族群在台灣有拓展的趨勢，至今部分平原地區都可看到黑翅鳶的蹤跡。由於黑翅鳶的擴張被認為是自然移動所致，所以不認為是入侵種。 該物種在歐洲最早的繁殖記錄是在1860年代，牠們生活範圍在南歐和西亞可能正在擴大，這被認為是因土地利用的變化，特別是農業和牧場幫助了黑翅鳶族群的成長。 黑翅鳶在大多數地區為留鳥。但據稱有部分群體會遷移。

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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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Facts and figures

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
Full lineage
  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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