12 Square-tailed Kite at Mongarlowe, NSW
Identification history
| Lophoictinia isura | 6 Nov 2022 | Liam.m | ||
| Lophoictinia isura | 5 Nov 2022 | LisaH |
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User's notes
We heard a commotion, and eventually looked up to see a battle in the sky! The pied currawongs looked almost as big as the kite. A little while later I looked up from the plants I was photographing, only to see two gliding low over the power lines.
2 comments
MatthewFrawley
wrote:
6 Nov 2022
Nice one, only the second photo sighting of the Square-tailed Kite on Canberra Nature Map.
Location information
- Maps Mongarlowe River
- Places Mongarlowe, NSW
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
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Featured LisaH Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Lophoictinia isura Birds of prey Birds
Species information
- Lophoictinia isura Scientific name
- Square-tailed Kite Common name
- Sensitive
- Vulnerable *
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 128m Recorded at altitude
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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