![]() Here you can listen to the call of the Mississippi Kite. Mississippi Kite birds supplement their diets with lizards, frogs, small turtles, rodents, small rabbits, and occasionally, small birds. Most insects are captured by kites in flight. Mississippi Kites occasionally come into conflict with people during the nesting season. In this respect, they are very beneficial to man. ![]() Their preferred foods for insects that are harmful to crops, such as cicadas and grasshoppers, make them economically beneficial. Although Mississippi Kites are known to eat mice, frogs, lizards, and small birds, the majority of their diet is composed of insects, especially grasshoppers. Mississippi kites are primarily insectivorous. Roosting groups, often with 10 or more individuals, are frequently near one or more nests. In the Great Plains it is often abundant in areas with numerous mature shelterbelts (windbreaks) and in urban areas. These Kite birds migrate in the fall to their wintering grounds in central and southern tropical South America. A sometimes gregarious woodland nester, the Mississippi Kite uses a wide variety of habitat throughout its breeding range. The White-tailed Kite is seen across the southern USA, from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast and has the most northern range in the western parts of North America. Mississippi kites’ nests are found in Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, southeastern Colorado, southern Kansas, and the eastern states from southern Missouri to South Carolina. The Swallow-tailed Kite is the largest member of the group and the Mississippi Kite is the smallest and is found in the most northern range in the eastern parts of the continent. Size and flight: With a 3-foot wingspan and measuring about 17 inches long, the kite looks like a peregrine falcon but. Mississippi kites have narrow, pointed wings and are graceful in flight, often appearing. The adult birds are falcon-shaped and look more like a falcon than any other of our kites, with light gray underparts, a dark gray dorsal surface, and a black unbarred tail. Folk names: hovering kite, mosquito hawk, blue snake-hawk. The Mississippi kite (Ictinia mississippiensis) is a small bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. Therefore often invite other kites to join in for whistling alarm calls. Mississippi Kite sounds in a bit high pitch while flying or perched to publicize its presence, and uses a little emphatic version, once the predator is nearby. Their quick note is followed by a long one note that trails down in pitch. ![]() The adult Mississippi Kite sounds is a “pheee-phew” whistle. This is mostly a silent bird, but Mississippi Kite Call is normally a high-pitched two-syllable whistle. The Mississippi kite ( Ictinia mississippiensis) is a member of the family Accipitridae, a group of diurnal birds of prey.
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