Hook-billed Kite Photo Gallery

Male (Hook-billed)

Medium-sized raptor with very broad, rounded wings. Note checkered pattern on flight feathers and broad bands in the tail. Males have gray underparts.

Female (Hook-billed)

Note very broad, rounded "paddle-shaped" wings and long tail with prominent, broad bands. Females are reddish brown on the neck continuing into barring on the breast and belly.

Immature (Hook-billed)

Medium-sized raptor with broad wings and long, banded tail. Note heavy bill with pronounced hook. Immatures are creamy white below with blackish barring.

Male (Hook-billed)

Medium-sized raptor with heavy, strongly hooked bill and banded tail. Adults have yellow eyes. Males are gray below with thin white bars.

Male (Hook-billed)

Rare dark morphs are deep brown-black all over with yellow patch before the eye and broad bands in the tail.

Female (Hook-billed)

Note pale eye (adults) and heavy, strongly hooked bill. Females are reddish brown on the neck, continuing into barring on the breast and belly.

Female (Hook-billed)

Often seen in lowlands along wooded streams and rivers (including rarely in South Texas), but in Andes can occur in cloud forest above 10,000 feet elevation.