What does the Brahminy Kite eat?
Haliastur indus
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Diet overview
Carnivore (primarily fish, crabs, small mammals, reptiles, insects, and carrion)
How it forages
Opportunistic scavenger and predator. Primarily feeds on dead fish and crabs, often snatched from the water surface. Also hunts live prey such as small fish, frogs, insects, small reptiles, and occasionally small birds and mammals. Known to steal food from other birds (kleptoparasitism).
When it feeds
Diurnal.
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