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Defined: DKZ00005
English Black-winged Kite
Scientific (Elanus caeruleus caeruleus)
Order ACCIPITRIFORMES
Family (Latin) Accipitridae
Family (English) Kites, Hawks, Eagles
Other name(s) Elanion blanc, Black-shouldered Kite
Breeding Regions PAL, AF, OR, AU
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Algeria,Angola,Austria,Benin,Bhutan,Botswana,Bulgaria,Burkina Faso,Burundi, Cambodia,Cameroon,Central African Republic,Chad,China,Congo,Cyprus,Democratic Republic of Congo,Denmark,Djibouti, Egypt,Eritrea,Ethiopia,France,Gabon,Gambia,Ghana,Greece,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau, India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,India - mainland,Indonesia,Ivory Coast,Kenya,Laos,Lebanon,Lesotho,Liberia,Madagascar, Malawi,Malaysia,Mali,Mauritania,Morocco,Mozambique,Myanmar,Namibia,Nepal,Netherlands, Niger,Nigeria,Pakistan,Papua New Guinea,Philippines,Poland,Portugal,Romania,Rwanda,Saudi Arabia, Senegal,Serbia,Sierra Leone,Singapore,Somalia,South Africa,South Sudan,Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan, Swaziland,Switzerland,Tanzania,Thailand,Togo,Tunisia,Uganda,Uzbekistan,Vietnam,Yemen, Zambia,Zimbabwe,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
caeruleus sw Iberian Pen., Africa and w Arabia
vociferus Pakistan to e China, Malay Pen. and Indochina
hypoleucus Indonesian Arch. (except Moluccas), Philippines (except Palawan group; widely extirpated), Sulawesi and sc, e New Guinea
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Desfontaines, 1789)
German Gleitaar
French Élanion blanc
Chinese 黑翅鸢
Japanese カタグロトビ
Russian Дымчатый коршун
Spanish Elanio común
Portuguese peneireiro-cinzento
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)