#1396 · 🐦 birds

White-tailed Kite

🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Grijze Wouw ·Elanus leucurus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Bryan Caro San Martin · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Ricardo Arredondo T. · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Ricardo Arredondo T. · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © cello caruso-turiello · CC BY 4.0
5. © johnyochum · CC BY 4.0
6. © sarbhloh · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. © John Murnane · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Len Blumin · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
9. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © John Hibbard · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The white-tailed kite ( Elanus leucurus ) is a small raptor found in western North America and parts of South America.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 25,371iNaturalist observations
weight 328.5 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
25,371 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 329 g.
Scientifically named by Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1818 (208 years ago).