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Ictinia

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Ictinia

Mississippi kite, USFWS Photo
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Accipitriformes
Family:	Accipitridae
Subfamily:	Milvinae
Genus:	Ictinia Vieillot, 1816
Type species
Falco plumbeus Gmelin, JF, 1788
Species
I. mississippiensis I. plumbea

Ictinia is a genus of birds in the family Accipitridae. It contains two species that are native to the Americas.

Taxonomy and species

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The genus Ictinia was introduced in 1816 by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot to accommodate the plumbeous kite which is therefore the type species.^[1]^[2] The name is from the Ancient Greek word iktinos for a kite.^[3] The genus now contains two species.^[4]

Genus **Ictinia** – Vieillot, 1816 – two species
Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Mississippi kite	Ictinia mississippiensis (Wilson, A, 1811)	United States	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Plumbeous kite	Ictinia plumbea (Gmelin, JF, 1788)	eastern Mexico to Peru, Bolivia and Argentina	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

References

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^ Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 24.

^ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1979). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 295.

^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 202. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.

^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2022). "Hoatzin, New World vultures, Secretarybird, raptors". IOC World Bird List Version 12.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 7 December 2022.