Fig. 3.—Histograms representing breeding schedules of two herons, the Red-tailed Hawk, Bobwhite, and two shore birds in Kansas. See legend to Figure 1 for explanation of histograms.
Black Vulture: Coragyps atratus (Meyer).—This is possibly a summer resident in the southeastern sector of Kansas. There is one nesting record, for Labette County (Goss, 1891:245).
Breeding schedule.—There are no data for this species in Kansas.
Number of eggs.—Clutch-size is 2 eggs (Davie, 1898).
Nests are placed in hollows (logs, stumps, etc.) on the ground surface.
Swallow-tailed Kite: Elanoides forficatus forficatus (Linnaeus).—This kite was formerly a summer resident in eastern Kansas; it no longer occurs as a breeding species.
Breeding schedule.—In Kansas the season seemed to occur relatively late in the year for a raptor; eggs were laid in May, so far as is known.
Number of eggs.—Clutch-size is about 2 eggs (Davie, 1898).
Nests are placed in tops of trees.
Mississippi Kite: Ictinia misisippiensis (Wilson).—This is a common summer resident in southern Kansas, west to Morton County. Specimens taken in the breeding season and records of nesting come from south of stations in Grant, Barton, Harvey, and Douglas counties; the present center of abundance is in Meade, Clark, Comanche, Barber, and Harper counties.