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[[Image:Smooth-billed_Ani.jpg|thumb|350px|left|Photo &copy; by {{user|Deca|Deca}} <br />Gonçalves, Mato Groso, [[Brazil]], August 2003]]  
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[[Image:Milvus migrans migrans.jpg|thumb|500px|left|Subspecies ''M. m. migrans'' adult<br /> Photo ©  by {{user|fsanchex|fsanchex}}<br /> Central [[Spain]], April 2015]]
  
 
==Identification==
 
==Identification==
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Overall black with a faint bluish [[Dictionary D-F#D|iridescence]] on neck, wings and tail, and a strong, vaguely parrot-like bill.  
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Dull pale brown crown, back of head and nape, rufous underwings, yellow legs and toes with black claws.
  
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Tail is long and rounded, and the flight looks weak with rapid wing-beats alternating with glides.  
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Females are marginally larger, darker and redder than males.
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Juveniles differ in having a dark iris, and more mottled plumage.
  
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==Habitat==
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Often close to water, near rivers, lakes and seacoast. 
  
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==Similar Species==
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It is frequent around towns and villages, refuse-tips and slaughterhouses.
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Easily mistaken for the [[Groove-billed Ani]] (''Crotophaga sulcirostris'') in the area of overlap. The Smooth-billed is slightly larger and its bill has a more arched culmen (esp. noticeable at basal part of [[Topography#Beaks|culmen]], where downward curve towards forehead is stronger than in Groove-billed) and no grooves in the upper [[Topography#Beaks|mandible]]. They can also be separated by the voice.
 
  
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Confusion also possible with the [[Greater Ani]], which is larger, longer-tailed, longer-billed, has a more iridescent plumage and yellow eyes (careful; juv. Greater Ani with reduced iridescence and dark eyes similar to those of the Smooth-billed).
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Patrols roads for roadkill animals.  
  
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Breeds in tall trees in open or sparsely wooded country.
  
  
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Revision as of 11:21, 1 October 2023

Featured Article: Black Kite


Subspecies M. m. migrans adult
Photo © by fsanchex
Central Spain, April 2015

Identification

Dull pale brown crown, back of head and nape, rufous underwings, yellow legs and toes with black claws.

Females are marginally larger, darker and redder than males. Juveniles differ in having a dark iris, and more mottled plumage.

Habitat

Often close to water, near rivers, lakes and seacoast.

It is frequent around towns and villages, refuse-tips and slaughterhouses.

Patrols roads for roadkill animals.

Breeds in tall trees in open or sparsely wooded country.



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