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Black-breasted Kite Hamirostra melanosternon Scientific name definitions

Stephen Debus, Peter F. D. Boesman, and Jeffrey S. Marks
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated August 1, 2015

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Distribution of the Black-breasted Kite - Range Map
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Distribution of the Black-breasted Kite

Recommended Citation

Debus, S., P. F. D. Boesman, and J. S. Marks (2020). Black-breasted Kite (Hamirostra melanosternon), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.bkbkit1.01
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