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Red Kite ( Milvus milvus )
Description Photograph (click on the image to increase it) Various
It has a pale head finely streaked with red, a red brown body and a very forked tail. Red Kite As his cousin black Kite, one can observe it spirit gliding above roads to look for the corpses of animals.
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Habitat  :Relatively rare Sort and in decrease in Europe. One finds it especially on the edge of the Mediterranean.
Food  :Reptiles, batrachians, carrions, fishes.
Size  :23.64 inch (60-65 cm) Weight  : 750-1,30 kg Wing span : 57.13 inch (145-165 cm)
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