Mississippi Kites: New Raptors to West Texas Embody Wild Tenacity
- Author
- Andrew Stuart
- Published
- Thu 13 Feb 2025
- Episode Link
- https://www.marfapublicradio.org/show/nature-notes/2025-02-13/mississippi-kites-new-raptors-to-west-texas-embody-wild-tenacity
Mississippi kites are slender and elegant, with 3-foot wingspans and plumage that fades from black to a pale gray-white. They once summered mostly in the Southeast, nesting in deciduous trees. But as people brought those trees to the Texas plains, the kites followed
