This raptor with red eyes often catches and eats cicadas, beetles, and dragonflies in midair, but can also catch frogs, turtles, and bats!

 The Mississippi Kite can sometimes be seen catching insect prey in midair using one or both feet. Then, while soaring, a foot is extended to the bill and inedible parts such as wings are pulled off and discarded, and the prey is eaten.

Mississippi Kites sometimes hunt in groups even during the breeding season, but migration is the time when the largest groups of kites can be observed.