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The Cuban kite is a little smaller than the hook-billed kite. Males have gray upperparts, black bars on the tail, and the underparts evenly barred grayish and white. Females resemble the
Grenada form of hook-billed kite, but the brown barring on the underparts is less rufescent. The bill of Cuban
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