Elaninae
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An elanine kite is any of several small, lightly-built raptors with long, pointed wings.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Accipitridae
- Image
- Black-shouldered Kite (Elanus caeruleus) in Hyderabad W IMG 4418.jpg
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- taxon name
- Elaninae
- taxon rank
- subfamily
- taxon common name
- Wouwachtigen
- topic's main category
- Category:Elaninae
- different from
- Milvinae
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Previously in Elaninae
- Description
- Taxonomy and systematics
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An elanine kite is any of several small, lightly-built raptors with long, pointed wings.
Some authorities list the group as a formal subfamily, Elaninae. As a subfamily there are six species in three genera with two of these genera being monotypic. Two other species have at times been included with the group, but genetic research has shown them to belong to different subfamilies.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Elaninae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.