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title: "Rode wouw"
description: "Milvus milvus — Vogels. The red kite (Milvus milvus) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as eagles, buzzards, and harriers."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/red-kite
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Rode wouw

> Milvus milvus — Vogels. The red kite (Milvus milvus) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as eagles, buzzards, and harriers.

- Scientific name: *Milvus milvus*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 54822
- Wikidata: [Q156250](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156250)
- iNaturalist taxon: [5267](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/5267)

## Names

- en: Red Kite
- de: Rotmilan
- es: Milano real
- fr: Milan royal
- nl: Rode wouw
- pt: Milhafre-real
- pl: Kania ruda

## Countries with the most observations

DE (11317), GB (10502), ES (10462), FR (4516), CH (2004), IT (1773), AT (1770), LU (1284), DK (1092), PT (939), SE (828), CZ (808)

## Summary

The red kite (Milvus milvus) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as eagles, buzzards, and harriers. The species currently breeds only in Europe, though it formerly also bred in West Asia and Northwest Africa. Historically, it was only resident in the milder parts of its range in Western Europe and Northwestern Africa, whereas all or most red kites in Northern mainland Europe wintered to the south and west, some also reaching western Asia, but an increasing number of northern birds now remain in that region year-round. Vagrants have reached north to Finland…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_kite

## Photo

![Rode wouw](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/red-kite/medium.jpg)

Photo: Charlie Farrell · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/110108388

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/red-kite?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).