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 ...

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 ...

A group of photography friends arrived by boat at daybreak recently to seek out hundreds of what are called the planet’s coolest bird. Somewhere along the St. Johns River, they found a roost of ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — You can see them pretty much anywhere in South Florida, taking flight over our skies. Swallow-tailed kites and their very distinct silhouette have returned following their ...

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 ...

MIAMI (WSVN) - A Swallow-tailed kite that spent 20 days at a rehabilitation center in North Bay Village after it was found injured in Fort Pierce was released back into the wild. 7News cameras on ...

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 ...

Humans aren't the only animals that head north for the summer months and back here to Florida for the fall, winter and spring. And while we sometime jokingly refer to those people as "snowbirds," ...

The swallow-tailed kite named Apopka, which had been hit by a car, healed and fitted with a tracking device, was released a week ago as enthusiasts, researchers, rehabilitators and Apopka’s mayor ...