page_title: Gray-headed kite
section_title: Ecology
hierarchical_section_title: Gray-headed kite / Ecology
caption_attribution_description: English: Gray-headed Kite Français&#160;: Milan de Cayenne
context_page_description: The gray-headed kite is a raptor found in open woodland and swamp forests. It shares the genus Leptodon with the extremely rare white-collared kite. It breeds from eastern Mexico and Trinidad south to Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and northern Argentina.
context_section_description: The gray-headed kite feeds mainly on reptiles, but also takes frogs and large insects. It usually sits on an open high perch from which it swoops on its prey. The call is a mewling keow. The nest is made of sticks lined with grass and is built high in a tree. The clutch is one or two white eggs, purplish at one end and spotted brown.
caption: In Tortuguero National Park, Costa Rica
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