snail kite

American  

noun

1. a bird of prey, Rostrhamus sociabilis, that travels in flocks in the American tropics and feeds on snails.

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Example Sentences

“We have also found that female snail kites prefer breeding with males with bigger beaks,” said Robert J. Fletcher Jr., a snail kite expert from the University of Florida.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2022

And the endangered Everglades snail kite is showing a fondness for an exotic species of the mollusk, another latecomer to the region.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 2, 2019

But the appeals court found the opposite, noting that species such as the wood stork and snail kite would be greatly affected through loss of foraging habitat and collisions with transmission poles and lines.

From Washington Times • Apr. 20, 2016

Meanwhile, the dike that protects millions of Floridians from Lake Okeechobee is leaking, the Everglade snail kite is flirting with extinction, and invasive Burmese pythons are running roughshod through the marsh.

From Time • Dec. 11, 2010

A snail kite plucks a snail from Eagle Bay on the north shore of Florida'a Lake Okeechobee.

From National Geographic