The Mississippi Kite is an elegant gray raptor that catches large flying insects on the wing, consuming them in flight. It nests in urban parks and suburban neighborhoods in the southern Great Plains, where nesting pairs sometimes dive at people passing under nest trees. Flocks of hundreds migrate south through Texas and Central America in fall.
Habitat
Open forests, wooded parks, and riparian trees of the South
Diet
Large flying insects, small lizards, and frogs
How common
Common
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