American Swallow - Tailed Kite

A migratory bird, the swallow-tailed kite spends only half the year in North America, usually arriving in March and leaving by September to winter in South America.
• Highly predatory, the swallow-tailed kite often takes and eats insect prey in midair
• Snatches entire nests of smaller birds and eats the young as it flies with the nest clutched in its extremely sharp talons
• Builds its nests at the very tops of the tallest trees in its habitat to avoid land predators