Brahminy Kite - Taxonomy

Taxonomy

The Brahminy Kite was first described by the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert in 1783. Four subspecies are recognized:

• indus (Boddaert, 1783) is found in South Asia
• flavirostris Condon & Amadon, 1954 is found in the Solomon Islands
• girrenera (Vieillot, 1822) is found in New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago and Australia
• intermedius Blyth, 1865 is found in the Malay Peninsula and into the islands of the Sundas, Sulawesi and the Philippines