Species profile
Slender-billed Kite
Helicolestes hamatus
Quick answer
E Panama to the Guianas, n Bolivia and Amazonian Brazil
- Scientific name
- Helicolestes hamatus
- Family
- Accipitridae
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Genus
- Helicolestes
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
Recording Slender-billed Kite in your journal
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- African Hawk-Eagle (Aquila spilogaster)
- African Marsh-harrier (Circus ranivorus)
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- Amplibuteo hibbardi (Amplibuteo hibbardi)