Ictinia
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{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Ictinia
| image = MississippiKite.JPG
| image_caption = Mississippi kite, USFWS Photo
| taxon = Ictinia
| authority = Vieillot, 1816
| type_species = Falco plumbeus
| type_species_authority = Gmelin, JF, 1788
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
}}
Ictinia is a genus of birds in the family Accipitridae. It contains two species that are native to the Americas.
Taxonomy and species
The genus Ictinia was introduced in 1816 by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot to accommodate the plumbeous kite which is therefore the type species.{{cite book | last=Vieillot | first=Louis Pierre | author-link=Louis Pierre Vieillot | year=1816 | title=Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire
| publisher=Deterville/self | location=Paris | page = 24 | language=French| url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9745205x/f30.item }}{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Cottrell | editor2-first=G. William | year=1979 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=1 | edition=2nd | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=295 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16108935 }} The name is from the Ancient Greek word iktinos for a kite.{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=202 | url=https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n202/mode/1up }} The genus now contains two species.{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=August 2022 | title=Hoatzin, New World vultures, Secretarybird, raptors | work=IOC World Bird List Version 12.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/raptors/| publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=7 December 2022 }}
{{Species table |genus=Ictinia |authority-name= Vieillot |authority-year= 1816 |species-count=two|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}
{{Species table/row
|name= Mississippi kite|binomial=Ictinia mississippiensis
|image=File:Mississippi Kite.jpg |image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Wilson, A|authority-year=1811 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= United States
|range-image=File:Ictinia mississippiensis map.svg
|range-image-size=180px
|size=
|habitat=
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|iucn-status=LC
|population=
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|subspecies=
}}
{{Species table/row
|name= Plumbeous kite|binomial=Ictinia plumbea
|image=File:Ictinia plumbea -Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil-8.jpg |image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Gmelin, JF |authority-year= 1788 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= eastern Mexico to Peru, Bolivia and Argentina
|range-image=File:Ictinia plumbea.svg
|range-image-size=180px
|size=
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|hunting=
|iucn-status= LC
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References
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