Doctor kicked out of Texas Senate after calling trans people 'pedophiles'.Where did the Houston rodeo's $1 million steer go? Possibly your dinner table.Watch: Drone footage captures formation of huge, spinning storm over Texas.Injury update: Will Marcus Sasser play for Houston vs.Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson to star in comedy series set in Texas.Watch: Houston Rodeo cowboy is thrown off horse after colliding with steer.Curiously, the precise whereabouts of their winter home deep in South America - perhaps as far as Paraguay and Argentina - is scarcely known and bears further study. A few breed in East Texas, Washington County and in counties on the upper and central Texas coast.īut most of the migratory flocks we see are likely arriving from breeding grounds in other Southern states or in the Texas Panhandle. The birds also have isolated breeding populations as far west as New Mexico and Arizona. Yes, they also breed in their namesake Mississippi, where allegedly the first specimen was collected during expeditions to the Louisiana Purchase, acquired in 1803. They breed in the Texas Panhandle, western Oklahoma and in Southern states from South Carolina through the Florida Panhandle and across to Arkansas. Perhaps the birds are lazily traversing Central and Southeast Texas because they don't come from too far away. Adding to their debonair appearance are a black tail and yellowish-red legs. They look decked out in a gray flannel suit, with light to almost white coloring on their breast and belly along with a pearly gray head and black mask surrounding red eyes. Whenever or wherever seen, the birds definitely attract attention due in part to their buoyant, low-level flight but largely to their handsome plumage. Vocalization: Utters a high-pitched, piercing, two-syllable whistle that sounds like pheee-phew. Diet consists of dragonflies, grasshoppers, lizards, anoles, snakes and a variety of vertebrate animals including small songbirds, bats and mice. Recently has begun nesting in fairly large numbers within wooded urban neighborhoods.įoraging: Usually hunts along woodland edges, fields, parks and golf courses but also skims tops of trees. Tends to nest in mature forests in the east but will nest in urban, suburban and rural tree groves in Oklahoma and Texas. Nesting: A bowl-shaped nest of sticks and twigs is braced in a tree-fork near the trunk. Sociable: Breeds, roosts, forages and migrates in small colonies Size and flight: With a 3-foot wingspan and measuring about 17 inches long, the kite looks like a peregrine falcon but flies in swooping motions like a gull. Folk names: hovering kite, mosquito hawk, blue snake-hawk.
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