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In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. (2017) Birds of New Guinea, Including Bismarck Archipelago and Boughainville. Species account: Brahminy Kite Haliastur indus. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. A Brahminy Kite (Haliastur indus) glides after catching a fish in this photo taken from Harbor Square at the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex on July 31, 2020. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. I was lucky enough to observe the birds carrying.

We currently have a pair of Brahminy Kite nesting at the top of a dense tree in our local neighbourhood, but the tree is too tall and dense to take photographs. In Australia a northern coastal species found from about Shark Bay in Western Australia to central New South Wales. The Brahminy Kite Haliastur indus is an unmistakeable medium-sized raptor that we observe very regularly around Broome. Black Kite can be distinguished by its shallowly forked tail.īreeds in much of India and Sri Lanka and in mainly coastal areas from Burma and southern China south to Malaya and from the Philippines, Borneo and Sumatra east to New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and Solomon Islands, and Australia. In Australia, juvenile easily confused with Whistling Kite and Square-tailed Kite note shorter tail of Brahminy, and exact pattern of dark and pale on underwing. Underwing with dark brown carpal bar and secondaries, pale secondary coverts and inner primaries (forming a broad pale 'H' across the wingspan), and black outer primariesĪdults unmistakable.Tail relatively short square-ended, to rounded when fanned not forked.