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Sound Ecology: White-tailed Kite

KHSU | By Jessica Eden

Published March 15, 2019 at 10:15 AM PDT

This segment of Sound Ecology celebrates the white-tailed kite. Naturalist Ken Burton shares some of the life history and behavior of this "angel hawk".

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