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black kite
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Noun1.black kite - dark Old World kite feeding chiefly on carrion
Milvus migrans
kite - any of several small graceful hawks of the family Accipitridae having long pointed wings and feeding on insects and small animals


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Black pigeons fly through the air, their flight echoed by black kites.
Lucia Nogueira: the Drawing Room at Tannery Arts by Mears, Emily Speers / Artforum International
Tuymans leaves us face to face with Gabriel Orozco's haunting Black Kites, 1997, "a human being stripped to the bone, turned into an object"--a final confrontation between the self and what Tuymans calls "the ultimate 'other.
With (X): Luc Tuymans by Den Bergh, Jos Van / Artforum International
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