The aerial show was awesome – swooping, gliding, banking, rolling upside down and other airborne acrobatics. We were not watching a Blue Angels air show but instead a gathering of swallow-tailed kites ...

Here's who to email or call to report a sighting. Sightings have been reported in these Mississippi counties. Information about sightings helps biologists monitor, protect nesting neighborhoods.

They dart and dash through the sky, hovering in the air one second before plummeting from the cloud plumes the next. Swallow-tailed kites are arguably the most acrobatic and athletic of birds found in ...

A bird has been spotted in Will County for the first time and photographed in and around the Forest Preserve District of Will County’s Hadley Valley Preserve. A photo of a swallow-tailed kite was ...

For the past few weeks, the prospect of seeing two of Georgia’s — and the nation’s — most spectacularly flying bird species has been drawing birders, including me, to some old agricultural fields near ...

May 13, 1978 was a big day for birders Frank Bader and Milton Rinehart. While poking around Green Lawn Cemetery on Columbus’s south side, they discovered Ohio’s first record of Mississippi kite. I’m ...

They're the acrobats of the skies, the birds that look as though they're somehow defying gravity when conducting aerial maneuvers. Swallow-tailed kites arrived in Florida a few weeks ago, and now is ...

In a poison ivy–filled thicket under loblolly pines, Jennifer Coulson bushwhacked to the base of the tree where swallow-tailed kites had built a nest. She rummaged through leaf litter to find a clump ...

South Alabama’s swamps, wetlands and prairies are home to one of the most graceful fliers in the bird world. The swallow-tailed kite lurks in the tops of trees and soars over open fields. Like their ...

You’re not likely to mistake a swallow-tailed kite for any other bird on the wing. The medium-sized raptor with coloration similar to a sea gull, a dove-like face and a huge forked tail is distinct by ...

They're acrobatic magicians, raptors that hunt, eat and live mostly on the wing. Known for their aerial grace and their ability to snatch shifty prey out of the air, swallow-tailed kites spend much of ...