Labels:airplane | animal | bird | earth | fence | kite | person | plant | road | sky | swallow tailed kite | tree OCR: Kite Ictinia mississippiensis This e SI auuns visitor to North America. It is a slim, graceful hawk which i quite snorebarb in habits Although not exclusively an insectivore this kite specializes in the aerial capture of large insects such as dragonflies pue cicada. It glides much more than it flaps. pue commonly forages in flocks above Its nesting site It also hunts from a perch. They nest as solitary and in small colonies UD to 25 to 40 pairs Nests are located at the abpa IO riparian flood plain forests in the Southeast, in prairie shelter- belt trees on the southern Great Plains, pue increasingly in urban park and golf courses in south-central I United States The Mississippi Kite s a small raptor. Females are slightly than males Averages: wingspan 38 in. both sexes, females: length 11. ...
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