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Milvus migrans migrans |
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Milvus migrans migrans |
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Milan noir |
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Black Kite |
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| Lukumbikumbi (Tshiluba) ; mpungwe, kifwi (Kitabwa) ; chiyimbi (Lunda) ; pungwa ; kibeba nkuku (Kibemba) ; Nkumbia (Kiluba) | |
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Greyish head, brownish body, forked tail, yellow cere.
used to be considered as a supspecies it is now considered as a species. |
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Very rare in Katanga, only one observation in known of at the Tanganyika. This migratory bird spends the winter in South Africa and returns then in Europe. |
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Warning :
This database was established according to official pieces of work and with the help of famous scientists. However, there might be some errors.
The vernacular names were collected in the field and in the colonial literature from the first part of the 20th century. The monks who established the first dictionaries were not necessarily informed naturalists. Therefore, errors must have been committed.
We invite everyone who could help us to improve this working tool to contact us in order to correct us and share her/his knowledge with us.
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