Sonoma Mountain Ecology Notes

Celebrating and Caring for the Land

White-tailed Kite, “Kiting”

Elanus leucurus, translates to “white-tailed kite”…kite, like the airborne toy at the end of a string. They scan the landscape for rodent activity then hover in place, facing into the wind, to best time their descent and pounce or give up and go back to sitting on a tree top.

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