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Swallow-tailed Kite

Elanoides forficatus

 

Tom Jenner
Howell and Webb classify this species as a winter migrant to the Caribbean slope. They give one site record for El Salvador and do not include central Honduras within the the range. They are certainly uncommon in El Salvador (I have only ever seen a couple at Perquin), but they are reasonably common in Central Honduras (I have seen them at Copan, Celaque, La Tigra and just north of Tegucigalpa on the road to San Pedro Sula).

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