CLASS AVES

Hook-billed Kite

Animals Kingdom (Animalia)

• Chordates (Phylum Chordata)

• Vertebrates (Subphylum Vertebrata)

• Birds (Class Aves)

The Hook-billed Kite is a mid-sized, slender raptor with a striped belly and banded tail. It is known for its diet consisting mainly of arboreal snails, taken while climbing in trees, walking about in upper branches and looking for tree snails. Both the male and female help to build a loose nest of sticks. Both parents help to incubate the eggs and raise the young.