Red kite
| Red kite Temporal range:
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|---|---|
| In flight over Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Accipitriformes |
| Family: | Accipitridae |
| Genus: | Milvus |
| Species: | M. milvus
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| Binomial name | |
| Milvus milvus (Linnaeus, 1758)
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| Range of M. milvus Resident
Summer breeding visitor, some migrating elsewhere during winter
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| Synonyms | |
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Falco milvus Linnaeus, 1758 | |
The red kite (Milvus milvus) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as eagles, buzzards, and harriers. The species currently breeds only in Europe, though it formerly also bred in west Asia and northwest Africa.[2][4] Historically, it was only resident in the milder parts of its range in western Europe and northwestern Africa, whereas all or most red kites in northern mainland Europe wintered to the south and west, some also reaching western Asia, but an increasing number of northern birds now remain in that region year-round.[2] Vagrants have reached north to Finland and south to Palestine, Libya and Gambia.[4][5]
- ^ "Mindat.org". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
- ^ a b c BirdLife International (2020). "Milvus milvus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T22695072A181651010. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22695072A181651010.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ Powys, 4th Baron Lilford, Thomas Littleton; Salvin, Osbert; Newton, Alfred; Keulemans, John Gerrard (1885). Coloured figures of the birds of the British Islands. Vol. 1. London: R. H. Porter. pp. 25f. OCLC 1029665771. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
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