Elanus
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderAccipitriformes
- FamilyAccipitridae
Observations recorded1,562,389
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- Black-shouldered Kite (Elanus caeruleus) in Kawal WS, AP W IMG 1681.jpg
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Elanus is a genus of birds of prey in the elanine kite subfamily of the family Accipitridae. The four species in the genus are widely distributed.
==Taxonomy== The genus Elanus was introduced in 1809 by French zoologist Jules-César Savigny to accommodate a single species, Falco caeruleus, the black-winged kite, that had been described in 1789 by René Louiche Desfontaines. This is now the type species of the genus by monotypy. The name is from the Ancient Greek '' for a "kite".
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