5315 x 3543 px | 45 x 30 cm | 17,7 x 11,8 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
4 octobre 2015
Lieu:
Botswana
Informations supplémentaires:
The yellow-billed kite (Milvus aegyptius) is the Afrotropic counterpart of the black kite (Milvus migrans), of which it is most often considered a subspecies. However, recent DNA studies suggest that the yellow-billed kite differs significantly from black kites in the Eurasian clade, and should be considered as a separate, allopatric species. There are two subspecies: M. a. parasitus, found throughout most of sub-Saharan Africa (including Madagascar), except for the Congo Basin (with intra-African migrations) and M. a. aegyptius of Egypt, south-west Arabia and the Horn of Africa (which disperses south during the non-breeding season). found in almost all habitats, including parks in suburbia, but rare in the arid Namib and Karoo. They feed on a wide range of small vertebrates and insects, much of which is scavenged It is mostly an intra-African breeding migrant, present in Southern Africa July–March and sometimes as late as May. It is generally common
