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Record of the Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus breeding in the Lakshadweep Islands, Indian Ocean
The Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus has a widespread
distribution in the Afrotropical and Indo-Malayan region
(Ferguson-Lees & Christie 2001). It is a resident of the Indian
mainland and Sri Lanka and has been sighted in the small atoll
islands of Lakshadweep off the south-western coast of India (Ali
& Ripley 1987). Its first record from Lakshadweep goes back to
the latter half of the nineteenth century when Hume (1876)
procured specimens from the islands of Amini and Kadamat. He
categorized them as regular visitors and dismissed any chances
of breedin