snail kite

noun

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

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.

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In Florida, north of Lake Okeechobee, the spread of the fist-size island apple snail, which escaped from the aquarium trade, has prompted a remarkable change not just in the diet but in the body of the endangered snail kite.

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

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Some, like the snail kite, are well-liked and heavily protected.

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The snail kite, an endangered species native to the Everglades, hadn’t been seen as far north as Gainesville for 100 years - until last year, that is.

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