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BirdLife International. 2015. European Red List of Birds. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg.
del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J. 1994. Handbook of the Birds of the World, vol. 2: New World Vultures to Guineafowl. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain.
Ferguson-Lees, J.; Christie, D.A. 2001. Raptors of the World. Christopher Helm, London.
Iqbal, M. 2016. Predators become prey! Can Indonesian raptors survive online bird trading? BirdingASIA 25: 30-35.
IUCN. 2019. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2019-3. Available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 10 December 2019).
Kemp, A.C., Kirwan, G.M., Marks, J.S., Motis, A. and Garcia, E.F.J. (2015). Black-winged Kite (Elanus caeruleus). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. and de Juana, E. 2015. Black-winged Kite (Elanus caeruleus). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. and de Juana, E. (eds), Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive, Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
Shirihai, H.; Yosef, R.; Alon, D.; Kirwan, G. M.; Spaar, R. 2000. Raptor migration in Israel and the Middle East: a summary of 30 years of field research. International Birding and Research Center in Eilat, Eilat, Israel.
Snow, D.W.; Perrins, C.M. 1998. The Birds of the Western Palearctic, Volume 1: Non-Passerines. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Detailed species account from European Red List of Birds (BirdLife International 2015)
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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/black-winged-kite-elanus-caeruleus on 23/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 23/12/2024.