Image: Elanoides forficatus02

Description: One Swallow-tailed Kite rising from a roosting place of hundreds of kites on the early morning thermals. Hundreds of Swallow-tailed Kites gather each summer at roosts in Florida and fly up from their roosts on morning thermals to start their daily soaring for food. This is one of many near the St. Johns River in Florida before they leave on their yearly journey to Brazil.
Title: Elanoides forficatus02
Credit: This image is Image Number 5369183 at Forestry Images, a source for forest health, natural resources and silviculture images operated by The Bugwood Network at the University of Georgia and the USDA Forest Service.
Author: Joe Nicholson, Nature photographer, Bugwood.org
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