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Milvus migrans · Family Accipitridae

Milvus migrans

Family Accipitridae

Order
Accipitriformes
Family
Accipitridae
GBIF occurrence records
2,805,816
Countries and territories with records
177
Black Kite
Thomas Kraft (ThKraft) · Milvus migrans front(ThKraft).jpg · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Thomas Kraft (ThKraft) · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Joost van Bruggen · Milvus_migrans_-_Black_Kite_XC431988.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Joost van Bruggen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 2,805,816 occurrence records from 177 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (30%), France (12.7%), Spain (11.4%), Australia (10.6%) and Georgia (2.9%); together they account for 67.7% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 1.4% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Milvus migrans combines the genus name Milvus with the species epithet migrans. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Milvus: Milvus milvus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 195 species of the family Accipitridae. This species ranks 9th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Buteo jamaicensis. Its record count is 6.8 times the family average (411,236). The family Accipitridae belongs to the order Accipitriformes, which has 213 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Accipitridae

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