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Black-winged Kite (Elanus caeruleus)Where and when to see it in the UK

Scarce migrant · reporting peaks July · Kites, Old World Vultures, Eagles, and Hawks · BOU category A

Records to 2026-08-16 · build 2026-08-31

Black-winged Kite (Elanus caeruleus)
Tisha Mukherjee, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Too few records to rate squares by month. Each marked square has at least one record; the table below gives the count and years.

Black-winged Kite: relative reporting rate by 10 km square, September

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (grid squares, place names from OS Open Names). Northern Ireland place names: OSNI Open Data, OGL v3.0. County and country boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0. Coastline: Natural Earth. Bird records from the data partners listed here.

Black-winged Kite has been recorded in 7 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (0%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in July.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN Red List, LC)
View on the IUCN Red List

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
TG42Norfolk, England632023 to 2026unverified
TG31Norfolk, England52025 to 2026unverified
SO70Gloucestershire, England32025unverified
TM33Suffolk, England262023unverified
TM11Essex, England112023unverified
TM01Essex, England12023unverified
TG23Norfolk, England12023unverified

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