Slender-billed kite | |
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A juvenile slender-billed kite at Careiro da Várzea, Amazonas state, Brazil | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Accipitriformes |
Family: | Accipitridae |
Subfamily: | Buteoninae |
Genus: | Helicolestes Bangs & Penard, 1918 |
Species: | H. hamatus
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Binomial name | |
Helicolestes hamatus (Temminck, 1821)
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Synonyms | |
Rostrhamus hamatus |
The slender-billed kite (Helicolestes hamatus) is a South American bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. It is found along a scattered range in forested parts of tropical northern and central South America, and far eastern Panama.[2] The species was recategorized into and has once again been removed from the genus Rostrhamus.