Joel Sartoreのインスタグラム(joelsartore) - 9月12日 02時00分

The white-tailed kite is a small, graceful white raptor that hunts over open ground, often seen hovering above fields, grasslands, marshes, and other grassy habitats as it searches for its preferred prey, small rodents. Like a paper kite on a string, the white-tailed kite can hover stationary in the air, holding itself aloft with rapid, fluttering wingbeats while its eyes scan the ground for potential prey. This characteristic behavior is, perhaps unsurprisingly, called “kiting”. The white-tailed kite declined to near-extinction in parts of its U.S. range during the early 1900s, likely due at least in part to egg collecting and hunting as well as loss of habitat. It has since recovered to some degree. Though still most common in Texas and California, white-tailed kites have expanded their range and can be spotted in a few other parts of the western United States as well as into Central America. They are easily stressed, making it challenging to rehabilitate sick or injured birds. Small mammals make up more than 95% of the average white-tailed kite’s diet. You can help white-tailed kites by not poisoning their food supply: avoid using rodenticides and encourage others to do the same. Photo taken @calraptorcenter, a facility dedicated to the rehabilitation of injured and orphaned birds of prey. #californiaraptorcenter #CRC #whitetailedkite #raptor #kiting #graceful #PhotoArk #savetogether

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