Cuban Kite
A species of Hook-billed Kites Scientific name : Chondrohierax wilsonii Genus : Hook-billed Kites
Cuban Kite, A species of Hook-billed Kites
Botanical name: Chondrohierax wilsonii
Genus: Hook-billed Kites
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Description
Cuban Kite is a little smaller than the Hook-billed Kite. Males have upper-parts gray, the tail barred with black; underparts evenly barred grayish and white. Females resemble the Grenada form of the Hook-billed Kite, but brown barrings on the underparts less rufescent; bill larger (also deeply hooked) and mostly yellowish. 
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Behavior
Cuban kite feeds on colored tree snails and slugs, which it finds in the forest undergrowth, for which its deeply hooked bill is thought to be adapted for. Taxonomic uncertainties within the genus Chondrohierax stem from the high degree of variation in bill size and plumage coloration throughout the geographic range of the single recognized species, hook‐billed kite Chondrohierax uncinatus. These uncertainties impede conservation efforts as local populations have declined throughout much of its geographic range from the Neotropics in Central America to northern Argentina and Paraguay, including two island populations on Cuba and Grenada, and it is not known whether barriers to dispersal exist between any of these areas.
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