swallow-tailed kite

Definitions of swallow-tailed kite
  1. noun
    graceful North American black-and-white kite
    synonyms: Elanoides forficatus, swallow-tailed hawk
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    type of:
    kite
    any of several small graceful hawks of the family Accipitridae having long pointed wings and feeding on insects and small animals
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