Species profile—Milvus migrans (black kite)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Aves (birds) → Accipitridae (kites, goshawks, eagles and harriers) → Milvus migrans (black kite)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Aves (birds)
- Family
- Accipitridae (kites, goshawks, eagles and harriers)
- Scientific name
- Milvus migrans (Boddaert, 1783)
- Common name
- black kite
- WildNet taxon ID
- 1714
- Alternate name(s)
- fork-tailed kite
kite-hawk
Pariah kite - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Back on Track (BoT) status
- Low
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Terrestrial
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=1714
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.