Leptodon cayanensis (Latham, 1790)

Vilas Boas da Frota, Angélica, Vitorino, Breno Dias, da Silva, Carolina Joana, Ikeda-Castrillon, Solange Kimie & Nunes, Josué Ribeiro da Silva, 2020, Birds of the Ramsar site Estação Ecológica de Taiamã and buffer zone, Pantanal wetlands, Brazil, Check List 16 (2), pp. 401-422 : 414

Leptodon cayanensis (Latham, 1790)

Material examined. Tables 1, 2.

IDentificAtion. We observed this kite, usually alone, perched on the river’s edge. We identified it by the small grey head, black back, and black tail with three whitish bars and a white tip ( Gwynne et al. 2010).