Bird of the Week: Invitation LV
This week is a local bird, Square-tailed Kite Lophoictinia isura, who had a nest across the road. The Square-tailed Kites still hunts over my place but I don’t know where their new nest is located.
Nests are predominately sticks lined with green eucalyptus leaves. Usually nests nearby water. August to December. 2 – 3 eggs, both male and female incubate. Male brings most of the food, with the female feeding the chicks.
Some one is impatient for their turn for a fly around.
The Square-tailed Kite feeds mostly on small birds and the contents of their nests, taken from the canopy. Their diet also includes insects, occasionally small mammals and lizards.
The Kites main diet is Honeyeaters. Here is a Noisy Friarbird hunting the Kite away from its nest
Square-tailed Kites are sparsely distributed, mainly coastal and sub-coastal, but not in deserts. Widespread over most of Australia, except the Central inland.
I’m sorry I don’t have access to a sound bite for you.
REF: https://www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Lophoictinia-isura
REF: https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/-/media/OEH/Corporate-Site/Documents/Animals-and-plants/Scientific-Committee/
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