![]() ![]() Their incubation is 28-30 days–a long time if you’re a bird used to soaring through the sky! Chicks leave the nest to take their first flight at around 40 days after hatching. Both males and females incubate and feed the growing babies.They build nests high in dead trees–often a 100 feet from the ground! They often nest in loose colonies with other kites, usually by water.They also drink while they are flying! To do this they glide low above the body of water and open their beaks. ![]() But swallow-tailed kites do! They chase them and then snag them in mid-air! (the same way dragonflies catch their prey!) Also on their menu are butterflies, beetles,bees, wasps, other insects, frogs, lizards, snakes, small birds and less often, bats, fruit and small fish. Have you ever watched a dragonfly in flight? If so then you know what amazing flyers they are, twisting and turning and darting about so quickly that it’s hard to imagine anything ever being able to catch them.
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