A white-and-black, mid-sized raptor with a deeply forked tail ... and they've long soared through Florida's sub-tropical climate. "Part of what awes you is the bird's aerial grace as it swoops ...

A white-and-black, mid-sized raptor with a deeply forked tail, swallow-tailed kites ... and they've long soared through Florida's sub-tropical climate. "Part of what awes you is the bird's aerial ...

An unusually long-tailed ... birds in the south average smaller and tend to show bare dark grayish skin below eye (similar in shape to the yellow skin on yellow-billed magpie). Black bill and ...

Adult: about the size of an American robin, but thinner and longer tailed. Upperparts gray, unstreaked; underparts grayish white, unstreaked; long black tail ... Migration: birds in the northern ...

They're the acrobats of the skies, the birds that look as though they're somehow defying gravity when conducting aerial maneuvers. Swallow-tailed kites arrived in Florida a few weeks ago ...

A white-and-black, mid-sized raptor with a deeply forked tail ... and they've long soared through Florida's sub-tropical climate. "Part of what awes you is the bird's aerial grace as it swoops ...