Swallow-Tailed Kite in Flight | Elegant Raptor Soaring Against Sky #1241526 (License: Personal Use)

This image captures a swallow-tailed kite (Elanoides forficatus) in full flight, highlighting its elegant silhouette with stark black upperwings and tail, creamy-white underparts, and deeply forked tail feathers. The bird’s streamlined body and outstretched wings demonstrate its mastery of soaring on thermal currents, often seen over wetlands and open woodlands in the southeastern U.S. during breeding season.

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