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The Mississippi Kite in Alabama

Published in 1958

Two years of field work, habitat studying, and general informational reading on the two species of kites in. Alabama produced a specimen on May 7, 1958, in Baldwin County.

On the morning of that date the author was on the Alabama River in Baldwin County adjacent to the mouth of Holly Creek with the purpose in mind of collecting a Mississippi kite, of which there is no specimen for Alabama.


Author: Robert W. Skinner
Volume Number: 6 Year Published: 1958
Issue Number: 1-2
Page Number: 13

Link to article: http://birdlife.aosbirds.org/1958/Vol 6 No. 1, 2_1958_p13-14.pdf
Link to the full issue of BirdLife: http://birdlife.aosbirds.org/1958/Vol 6 No. 1, 2_1958.pdf
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Published on:
January 19, 2018

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