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Ictinia
Mississippi kite, USFWS Photo
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Accipitriformes
Family:	Accipitridae
Subfamily:	Buteoninae
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

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. The name is from the Ancient Greek word iktinos for a kite. The genus now contains two species.

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

1. Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 24.
2. 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.
3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 202. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
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.

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