Is there anything cooler than a bird of prey that can spread fires using lit sticks, and is so sneaky, it can out-scavenge an ibis?
This majestic raptor is a fire-wielding ninja
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Whistling kites, along with black kites and brown falcons, have for thousands of years been intentionally spreading the reach of bushfires. Image credit: Nicole Patience/Shutterstock
MEET THE WHISTLING kite – a real-life ‘fire hawk’ with more tricks up its sleeve than you might expect.
The most remarkable of these has been the stuff of legends for millennia – a phenomenon long-touted by the Indigenous peoples of northern Australia, but only recently documented by scientists working across the Northern Territory, Western Australia, and Queensland.
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